A neighborhood quarrel in summer 2015 ended with the death of 31-year-old Tenika Fontanelle in Washington, D.C. On August 18, in the 1300 block of Congress Street SE, Fontanelle was shot inside her own apartment during an incident that also injured her 12-year-old son and the suspect.

The dispute began earlier when Fontanelle’s son and friends reportedly threw rocks and sticks at 17-year-old Kevin Lee. Accounts differ about what happened next. The son said Lee forced his way into the home, fought with both him and his mother, and shot Fontanelle. Lee said he went to speak with Fontanelle about the boy’s behavior, that she became aggressive, and that the gun discharged during a struggle; he suggested she may have shot herself. Investigators recovered a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol with blood on it from Lee’s bedroom, and the medical examiner ruled Fontanelle’s cause of death a gunshot wound to the chest.

Lee was arrested and charged as an adult. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Did anyone in the neighborhood witness the events inside the apartment or the moments leading up to the shooting?