On New Year’s Day 2022 a celebration at the Cabin Tap House in Denver’s LoDo district turned deadly when an argument in the club’s basement escalated and gunfire broke out on the main floor. Hiyaw Joya Tesfa Zewdie-Walker, a 29-year-old woman originally from Ethiopia who came to the United States at age six, was struck and killed while apparently an innocent bystander. She was a wife, a mother to a son and a daughter, a certified nursing assistant, and a business owner.

The shooting also killed 24-year-old Devonte Phillips and wounded two others. Responding officers found two injured men outside and discovered Hiyaw and Devonte unresponsive inside; paramedics were unable to save them. The shooter fled before police arrived. Investigators used the club’s ID scanner to develop leads and, two weeks later, arrested 24-year-old Levi Diecidue. Diecidue pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault and later received a 62-year prison sentence.

Did anyone who knew Hiyaw or was at the Cabin Tap House that night see anything that might help clarify how the confrontation began?