On July 20, 2023, just after 1 a.m., police found 34-year-old Veronica Smart lying unresponsive in the middle of the street at Marseilles and Minerva on Detroit’s east side with a gunshot wound to the head. Medics were unable to revive her and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators concluded the shooting occurred inside a vehicle near that intersection and described the incident as a domestic violence situation. Authorities allege her 31-year-old boyfriend, Eugene Demarcus McKeithan, shot Smart in the head, pushed her body out of the car, and fled. McKeithan was arrested later that day and charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office with first-degree murder, felon in possession of a firearm, and two counts of felony firearm. He was arraigned on July 23, 2023, and remanded to jail without bond; pretrial proceedings were scheduled to follow.

Are there details about Veronica’s movements that night or witnesses in that neighborhood who could help clarify what happened?