On July 4, 2017, 34-year-old Paul James Assaf was shot and killed inside his grandmother Paula Robins’s home on Richwood Drive in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Robins, 79, reported being awakened by a loud noise and her dogs barking; the back door of the house had been forcibly kicked in and she encountered Assaf moving toward her bedroom. She told him to leave and warned she had a gun; he claimed he was armed and then pointed what she believed was a pistol from around the bathroom corner. Robins fired her .38 caliber revolver when Assaf charged into the bedroom and approached her, and medical responders pronounced him dead at the scene. A black semi-automatic handgun found near his body was later identified as a plastic BB gun. Investigators noted a history of a deteriorating, aggressive relationship that had left Robins fearing for her life. The 14th Judicial District Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the evidence and determined the shooting was justified as self-defense; no arrests were made.

Did anyone in Mountain Home know Paul or have information about his relationship with his grandmother that could shed more light on what led to this confrontation?