Jose Bebo Mendez, 23, was killed on April 9, 2014, in West Hartford, Connecticut, after a dispute with his girlfriend ended inside a car in a crash near Prospect Avenue and Kane Street. Police found a vehicle that had gone through a fence; Mendez was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

The woman with him, 27-year-old Angela Grasso of Plainville, was identified as the suspect. Grasso, a bail bondswoman, told investigators she shot Mendez in self-defense, saying he had repeatedly threatened to kill her and her family and that an argument had begun the day before. Prosecutors said surveillance footage showed moments when she walked ahead of him and at a distance, suggesting she had chances to leave earlier, and upgraded the charge to murder.

At trial a Hartford Superior Court jury acquitted Grasso of murder but convicted her of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and sentenced her to 40 years. An appeal arguing the state failed to disprove self-defense was later rejected by the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Did anyone know Mendez or witness the events that evening around Prospect Avenue and Kane Street?