Shortly after 1:23 a.m. on Saturday, October 20, 2018, gunfire in a northeast Bend, Oregon neighborhood left two men dead. Neighbors called police after hearing shots; a 911 call from the home’s resident, Brennan Willey Pebbles, reported he had shot a man. Officers found two men with gunshot wounds inside the shared residence. Thirty-one-year-old Tyler William Herrick was dead at the scene; 33-year-old Kyle Scott Adams was transported to St. Charles Bend hospital and later died of his injuries.

Investigators say the encounter began when Herrick, who lived next door, entered the home and went into Adams’s bedroom while Adams was sleeping. After Adams demanded Herrick leave, Herrick initially left but returned armed with an AR-15 and fired multiple shots through the front window, striking Adams. Pebbles, who had been away, returned, armed himself with a 9mm, and took cover in a master bathroom as Herrick re-entered and searched for him. Herrick was fatally shot after entering the master bedroom; authorities later concluded Pebbles acted in self-defense and made no arrests.

Did anyone in the neighborhood witness anything that night or know more about the relationships between the men involved?