In the early morning hours of July 30, 2016, 19-year-old Anaiona Gaston was shot and killed inside a tenth-floor apartment on Good Hope Road SE in Southeast Washington. She was holding her two-month-old daughter on her lap when a conversation with her boyfriend, 21-year-old Malik Fields, turned from serious to playful. According to police, Gaston made a hand gesture and said pop, pop; Fields picked up a 9mm handgun, also said pop, pop, and a single round struck Gaston in the forehead. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Fields fled the apartment after the shooting but was arrested a block away; he was charged with second-degree murder. The victim’s grandmother, who was in the apartment, woke to the gunfire and called police. Gaston’s mother has spoken about her grief and about using the case to raise awareness of domestic violence; she is raising Gaston’s daughter.

Are there details about that night or about Anaiona’s life that people who knew her can share to help fill gaps in the timeline?