Michelle Kemp Gilder, 40, was fatally shot on January 4, 2022, while sitting in a vehicle on Treadwell Road near the northern edge of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama. Her husband was grazed by a bullet during the same attack. The incident was described as a targeted assault.

In the weeks after the shooting, investigators worked to reconstruct what happened. In February 2022, Charles Eugene Knight Jr. was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with Gilder’s death and with attempted murder for the injury to her husband.

What details about the assault or motive might help explain why Gilder and her husband were targeted?