Spc. Shakir D. Cook-Troynel, 23, was shot and killed in Colorado Springs in the early morning of November 17, 2018. The shooting occurred inside a home near Airport Road and Murray Boulevard after Pfc. Isaiah Towns went to the house because he suspected his wife of infidelity with Cook-Troynel. Towns reportedly heard sexual noises coming from the master bedroom, entered, and found his wife partially nude and Cook-Troynel in a closet.

A struggle involving Towns and his wife followed; during that altercation the pistol discharged once, striking Cook-Troynel in the upper torso. Towns fled, discarded the weapon near a dumpster, and later was arrested after initially giving a false story about a break-in. He was charged with second-degree murder and held on $250,000 bond; a jury later convicted him in January 2020 of felony reckless manslaughter and felony menacing after the defense argued the shot was an accidental result of a scare tactic gone wrong.

What details about the night or the relationships involved might help explain how the situation escalated to deadly violence?