On the evening of August 1, 2017, a dispute over a dice game on the 300 block of East 13th Street in Covington, Kentucky, ended in gunfire that killed 25-year-old Antonio Bandy and injured another man, Marcus Broadus. Police responded to a call about a verbal dispute that escalated into a shooting; both Bandy and Broadus were taken to hospital, and Bandy later died.

Investigators determined the confrontation stemmed from a debt tied to an earlier dice game. Marcus Broadus had called his son, Antonio Bandy, to the scene. Surveillance footage from two cameras and witness statements were used in the inquiry. Prosecutors say that as Bandy turned his back, 20-year-old Damondre Williams drew a gun, shot Bandy in the back of the head, then shot Broadus multiple times before fleeing; Broadus survived.

Williams was arrested August 28, 2017, and charged with murder and first-degree assault. At trial in July 2018 he claimed self-defense but admitted under cross-examination that Bandy did not have a gun drawn when he was shot. A jury convicted Williams of first-degree manslaughter for Bandy’s death and attempted murder for the attack on Broadus, recommending a 35-year total sentence with 20 years to be served before parole eligibility, and a judge later upheld that sentence.