On August 14, 2009, 36-year-old Nettie Becht and 40-year-old Luiz Diaz were fatally shot at the Westlawn Housing Development in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Becht, a single mother of three, had recently ended a four-year relationship with 60-year-old Elvin Valentin, and family accounts described tensions: Becht’s relatives said Valentin was obsessed and stalking her, while Valentin’s family said the two were a couple and that Becht had been flaunting a new relationship with Diaz.

According to reports, after Becht was released from the hospital that day she told Valentin she was in a new relationship and was done with him. Later that evening Valentin confronted Becht and Diaz outside her apartment armed with a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol and fired ten shots, striking both in the torso. The two victims were taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Valentin was found at the scene, admitted to the shooting to his son and to a responding officer, and acknowledged having consumed alcohol before the encounter. He was charged in connection with the deaths.

Are there people who knew Nettie or Luiz who can help fill in what happened that night or what led up to it?