Deija Mendez was 23 when she was shot dead in Lowell, Massachusetts on June 23, 2020. Around 3:30 p.m. she was sitting in the driver’s seat of a black Chevrolet Tahoe on Coral Street when an assailant fired two shots; one struck the car door and the other fatally wounded her in the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators concluded the shooting was not random. Mendez had traveled from Boston with a friend to buy a BMW that was reportedly in the possession of Xavier DeJesus’s girlfriend; a dispute over that vehicle preceded the shooting. Surveillance video captured someone approaching the Tahoe just before the shots were fired.

Xavier DeJesus of Lowell was quickly identified as the primary suspect and fled, prompting a manhunt; he was captured in Fall River on July 28, 2020, and later charged in connection with the killing. Several other people were charged with witness intimidation, and two faced accessory-after-the-fact allegations. What information do readers have about the events on Coral Street that afternoon?