Tyrone Thompson, 40, was fatally shot in a parking lot outside a retail store near Buckeye Road and 10th Street during an August 2021 meeting he had arranged with his wife to discuss an alleged infidelity. The wife was accompanied by a friend, identified as 23-year-old Morion Collins. Police say the encounter escalated when Thompson’s wife produced a handgun and fired at the couple’s vehicle, then handed the gun to Collins. As Thompson moved toward the car, Collins is alleged to have fired the shot that struck him. Emergency services took Thompson to a nearby hospital, where he later died of his wound.

Police arrested Collins after obtaining witness statements and cell phone data placing him at the scene; he was booked on a charge of second-degree murder. What details about the confrontation or about those present might help explain how the situation turned deadly?