Meghan Riley Lewis, 57, was shot and killed in the parking lot of her English Country Manor apartment complex in Bel Air, Maryland, on the evening of December 27, 2023. Friends and neighbors remembered her as a parent, a friend, and an active advocate for the LGBTQ+ community who founded a patient support group for transgender individuals and often opened her home to those in need.

According to charging documents, the confrontation began when delivery driver Brian Michael Delen, 47, allegedly addressed Lewis as sir while making a delivery. An argument followed; Lewis reportedly followed Delen as he drove away, he stopped, and then shot her once in the torso. Lewis was unarmed and died after being taken to the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center.

Delen surrendered after calling 911 and was initially charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and firearms offenses; public outrage followed his release on GPS monitoring. Charges were later upgraded to first-degree murder and he was held without bond. At trial in Harford County Circuit Court, the jury acquitted Delen of first- and second-degree murder but convicted him of second-degree assault and using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence. The State’s Attorney’s Office said it would seek the maximum sentence for those convictions.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or anyone who knew Meghan see or hear anything that night?