On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2015, Sherika Huff Packer, 24, and her husband Anthony Packer, 34, were shot during a holiday gathering at Sherika’s mother’s home in Montgomery, Alabama. A dispute between people at that gathering and others at a neighboring house escalated into a physical fight. During the melee Anthony Packer reportedly struck a man named Kelly with a beer bottle, knocking him unconscious.

Sherika Huff Packer was shot twice in the chest and later died at a local hospital; she told a police officer before she died that the person who shot her was next door. Anthony Packer was shot once in the chest and died at the scene. Sherika’s brother Legarian Huffman was shot in the hand.

Varnado was arrested and convicted on three counts of capital murder and one count of attempted murder, receiving life without parole for the capital murder convictions and a concurrent life term for attempted murder. An appellate court later reversed the capital murder convictions, finding the jury was not properly instructed on heat-of-passion manslaughter, and affirmed the attempted murder conviction, returning the case to the lower court for further proceedings.

Did anyone at the gathering or in the neighborhood witness events that led up to the shooting or know more about what sparked the initial dispute?