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Melissa J. White, 23, of Swansea, Massachusetts, died in the early morning hours of August 24, 2014, after a confrontation that ended with a gunshot on Ocean Grove Avenue. She was found lying in the street near 356 Ocean Grove Avenue with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. The shooting occurred about 1:30 to 1:35 a.m. after multiple 911 calls reporting gunfire following a neighborhood dispute.

Prosecutors said White and two men had gone to the home of Timothy R. Levesque after an earlier altercation involving one of Levesque’s sons; Levesque followed the vehicle and caught up near Ocean Grove Avenue. Levesque was arrested at the scene and initially charged with murder; he claimed self-defense, saying White had lunged at him with a crowbar or similar tool. Police reportedly recovered a foot-long cat’s paw tool, while friends said she was not carrying a crowbar.

Levesque was tried on manslaughter in August 2017; on August 22, 2017, a jury found him not guilty. Does anyone have firsthand information about the events on Ocean Grove Avenue that night or about Melissa’s movements beforehand?