On the night of February 12, 2015, Tammy Meyers, 44, was shot after a chaotic confrontation that began when she was giving her 15-year-old daughter a driving lesson in a school parking lot. According to the timeline, Meyers drove her daughter home after an encounter with a man who had reportedly threatened them. Rather than calling police, she sent her daughter to fetch her adult son Brandon, who armed himself and joined Tammy in her green Buick to look for the threatening driver.

Their vehicle crossed paths with a silver Audi carrying 26-year-old Derrick Andrews and 19-year-old Erich Nowsch Jr. Nowsch, who had called Andrews for a pickup after being in a nearby park, fired from the passenger seat during a pursuit that ended in the cul-de-sac by the Meyers’ home. Tammy Meyers was struck in the head and died at the hospital on February 14, 2015. Brandon Meyers returned fire but did not hit anyone.

Police arrested Nowsch and Andrews; both later entered guilty pleas in March 2016. Nowsch pleaded to second-degree murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and discharging a firearm from a vehicle and received a life sentence with parole eligibility. Andrews pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and accessory to murder and was sentenced to five to 15 years.