On Saturday, November 14, 2020, 44-year-old Terry Lavell Hickman, a Black man, was fatally shot inside an apartment in the 1000 block of 4th Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C. Police responded to a report of gunshots at about 5:26 p.m. and found Hickman with gunshot wounds; emergency medical services pronounced him dead at the scene.

The killing was described as domestic in nature. Investigators say Nijinsky Latassia Dix, then 37 and a doctoral student, had been in a romantic relationship with Hickman that he had recently ended. In the weeks before the shooting Dix reportedly traveled to Washington, D.C., to stalk Hickman. On the day of the homicide she flew from Indiana, rented a car, and went to Hickman’s apartment, where she shot him. Officers entering the apartment found Dix kneeling at Hickman’s feet holding a 9mm pistol; she reportedly told police that Hickman pushed her and she shot him, a statement her mother also overheard on the phone.

Dix was arrested at the scene and charged with Second Degree Murder While Armed. What details about motive or events leading up to the shooting remain unclear?