On the late evening of August 20, 2023, 24-year-old Lashawn Andrews was shot in the face outside an apartment building near East 178th Street and Park Avenue in the Bronx at about 11:30 p.m. She was rendered unconscious and taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Andrews lived in the Bronx, about a mile from where the shooting occurred, and was the mother of two children.

Police investigators say the shooting followed an argument between Andrews and another woman. Authorities identified 41-year-old Latrisha Lowman as the person they allege fired the fatal shot; Lowman was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon. The case left a community grieving and two young children without their mother.

If anyone witnessed the dispute or has information about what happened that night, please share what you know.