In the pre-dawn hours of October 28, 2022, 38-year-old Maurice Frazier was found unconscious and unresponsive in the hallway of an apartment building on the 900 block of Bellevue Street SE in Washington, D.C., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. A call came in about 2:53 a.m.; D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services pronounced Frazier dead at the scene.

Police investigation led to a suspect. On December 16, 2022, members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force located and arrested 34-year-old Myron Hickson of District Heights, Maryland, on a D.C. Superior Court warrant. He was charged with Second Degree Murder while Armed in connection with Frazier’s death. Prosecutors described a personal motive tied to a dispute over a woman both men knew, saying Hickson went to the woman’s apartment where an argument followed and that Hickson acted as the aggressor. The defense contended Hickson fired in self-defense, saying Frazier emerged angry and armed.

What details about the night or the people involved might help explain how the situation escalated?