Early on February 22, 2020, a dispute that began inside Elizabeth’s Bar and Restaurant in Bloomfield, Connecticut, spilled into the parking lot and left two brothers dead. Franklin Arthur Kane Spencer, 42, and his brother Aaron Lee Walker Sr., 43, were found shortly after 1 a.m. with gunshot wounds. Bloomfield officers, whose station sat across the street, heard the shots and were on scene in under a minute.

Both men were taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The investigation quickly focused on 44-year-old Russell Smith of Windsor, Connecticut, who fled the scene and was sought in the months that followed. Smith was captured in August 2020 and brought back to Connecticut to face charges in the double homicide.

What details from that night or the weeks after might help fill gaps in the timeline of events leading up to the shootings?