Daniel Rwabuzisoni, 21 and originally from Burundi, was found dead inside his Springdale, Arkansas, apartment on the evening of July 17, 2017. Police were called to Chapel Ridge Apartments on North Oak Street around 8 p.m. following reports of a shooting. Officers discovered Daniel lifeless on a bathroom floor with multiple gunshot wounds and other injuries to his head and torso.

Investigators focused on a 23-year-old roommate, Mei Ka Sin, who had fled the scene before police arrived but turned himself in the next day and was taken into custody at the same complex. Sin told investigators he shot Daniel in self-defense because he believed Daniel was armed, but no weapon was found on the victim. A firearm believed to be the weapon was recovered from the apartment and sent for analysis.

Sin was initially charged with capital murder. In April 2019 he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a 20-year sentence in the Arkansas Department of Correction, with 15 years suspended and credit for 629 days already served.