Jason Patrick Horsley was 25 and working as a carpenter when he was shot and killed in Denver’s City Park West neighborhood on May 18, 1999. He and his girlfriend had moved there to renovate a house. A dispute with the next-door neighbor, Malaika Tamu Griffin, over trivial matters such as the placement of his work tools had been escalating.

After an argument on the evening of May 18, 1999, Griffin went into her home, retrieved a 9mm handgun, returned and shot Horsley in the back at close range. He died of his wound before first responders arrived. Griffin fled the scene, carjacked a vehicle from an acquaintance, and remained a fugitive for six years. Investigators later found books on terrorism and bomb-making in her apartment.

In June 2005 a co-worker in El Cajon, California, recognized Griffin from a television broadcast and alerted authorities; she was arrested by the FBI and extradited to Colorado. At trial in February 2006 Griffin claimed self-defense, saying Horsley had threatened her, but the prosecution noted Horsley was shot in the back. The jury convicted Griffin of first-degree murder and she was sentenced to life without parole.

Did anyone in that Denver neighborhood remember tensions between Horsley and Griffin before the killing?