Matthew John Cizek was 28 when he was shot and killed outside his home in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 2015. Family remembered him as a bright, magnetic presence — a son, brother, husband and father who made people laugh. The shooting grew out of a dispute with Carl Allen West; the two had been selling and using methamphetamine together, and West believed Cizek had become paranoid and owed him money.

On the afternoon of the shooting, West made a threatening remark to Cizek’s father-in-law that the next time he saw Cizek he would shoot him. Shortly after, Cizek arrived at the house with his wife and her sister, approached West, who was outside on a motorcycle, and West shot Cizek in the chest. Cizek died despite 911 calls and medical care. West fled on his motorcycle but was later arrested in Colorado and charged. A jury convicted West of second-degree murder after he had claimed self-defense and intoxication at trial.

If anyone knew Matthew, his routines, or saw him in Des Moines that day, does anything about the timeline or what happened outside the house stand out to you?