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A party at a Palms Casino Resort Fantasy Tower suite in Las Vegas on the night of May 15, 2014, ended with the death of 25-year-old Evan Plunkett, an aspiring rapper known as Hollywood Will and a former U.S. Marine. About 40 to 50 people were at the gathering while a music video was being filmed when a fight broke out that involved Plunkett, his brother TJ, and another man. Friends said Plunkett was trying to break up the altercation when he was shot in the chest; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead a few hours later.

Several people fled the suite after the shooting. A few days later, 25-year-old Jim Edward Johnson turned himself in and was arrested on suspicion of murder. Johnson said the gun discharged after he dropped it while trying to intervene. He later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and in January 2015 was sentenced to 18 months to eight years in prison. Plunkett’s family disputed the account of an accidental discharge; his brother TJ, who was injured in the altercation, said Johnson had pistol-whipped him before the gun went off and expressed frustration with the plea deal.

Are there witnesses who recall the sequence of events in the suite that night or who can clarify what started the fight?