Patricia Hall, 45, was found dead in her Germantown rowhouse on the morning of September 16, 2023, after an exchange of gunfire the night before. Hall had lived with her family for about three years in a two-bedroom rowhouse on the 100 block of East Pastorius Street. In early 2023 the family fell behind on rent and reported the property was deteriorating; their landlord, Stephen Wilkins, allegedly refused repairs and began harassing them, shutting off electricity and water, removing the electric meter, and breaking a window.

On September 15, 2023, Wilkins removed every door and window from the house. Hall sent her younger children to stay with a relative and remained alone in the shell of the home, armed to protect her possessions. Prosecutors say a masked man named Felipe Eskew slipped through an open door that night; Hall and the intruder exchanged gunfire and both were shot and killed. Police found Hall unresponsive on the living room floor the next morning and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Does anyone have information about the days leading up to the confrontation or about activity at the Pastorius Street rowhouse in September 2023?