On April 23, 2024, at about 8:00 p.m., Dallas Police found two women with gunshot wounds inside an apartment in the 300 block of South Boulevard. Seventeen-year-old Drenesia Willis and her mother, 40-year-old LaNeshaia Pinkard, were taken to a hospital and died there from their injuries.

An arrest warrant affidavit says the shooting followed a physical altercation earlier in the day involving Willis and another woman who lived at the complex. That woman was reportedly brought into 65-year-old Doris Walker’s apartment, Willis called her mother to the scene, and Willis and Pinkard then allegedly forced entry, assaulted the woman and threatened Walker. Walker told investigators she shot Willis as Willis tried to leave and then shot Pinkard inside the apartment, saying she believed Pinkard might have a gun though she never saw one. Walker and the victims were known to each other; Walker is being held on capital murder charges.

What details about the timeline or contact among the three would help clarify what happened that night?