On the night of February 20, 2020, 35-year-old Crystal Lynn Howard of Lexington, Kentucky, was fatally shot in the chest in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Angliana Avenue. Howard had accompanied her son and his friend to what her son had arranged as a drug transaction with an individual known as Jiggy. During the exchange the man producing a handgun took the son’s friend in a headlock and demanded belongings, including $1,800 in cash. Howard’s son tackled the assailant in an effort to disarm him. The gunman broke free and fired two shots while fleeing; one bullet struck Howard.

Howard’s son and his friend placed her in their truck and drove to their home on Shaftsbury Road, only to find she was unresponsive on arrival. Emergency responders pronounced her dead at the scene. U.S. Marshals arrested 21-year-old Joseph Manuel Gonzalez in Shelbyville on February 21, 2020; he was charged with murder, robbery, and two counts of wanton endangerment, and both witnesses identified him from a photo array.

Does anyone have additional information about the Angliana Avenue apartment complex or the people involved that could help clarify what happened that night?