A long-running dispute erupted into deadly violence at an O’Charley’s parking lot in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on the night of Friday, January 24, 2020. The confrontation began inside the restaurant when Michael Robert Russell’s daughter identified another patron as someone she believed had been involved in a prior robbery. The argument carried outside, where 21-year-old Elijsha Taylor and 40-year-old Michael Russell became involved in a physical fight.

During the altercation Taylor shot Russell; Russell was taken to a local hospital and died the next day, January 25, 2020. A friend of Russell, Terry A. Stice II, then shot and killed Taylor at the scene. Emergency services arrived just after 10 p.m.; Taylor was pronounced dead in the parking lot.

Terry Stice II was arrested and ultimately pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon; he received a 15-year prison sentence. Investigators said the shootings grew out of the ongoing dispute between the parties and were not related to the restaurant itself.

Did anyone witness the confrontation inside the restaurant or the events that spilled into the parking lot?