This case gets told two very different ways. Police say Alijah Adams, 22, forced his way into an apartment on 169th Street in Hammond around 2:30 a.m. on June 1, 2024, armed, and attacked the man who lived there, and that the resident shot him in self-defense. Prosecutors agreed and didn't charge the shooter.

Alijah's family doesn't accept that. The autopsy report they shared lists wounds to the head, two in the back, the groin and the thigh, and they've asked how shots to the back fit a self-defense claim. That's a fair question, even though the prosecutor's office has already given its answer.

In October, his girlfriend, Marysa Rodriguez, was charged with murder under Indiana law, which allows an accomplice to be charged when someone dies during a crime. She pleaded not guilty. The resident's girlfriend was also hit and survived.

So where do you come down? Do the back wounds change how you read the self-defense ruling, or could a chaotic fight in a doorway explain them?