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On a summer evening in Covington, Kentucky, 24-year-old Lazuri Collins was fatally shot while driving her Toyota Camry at the intersection of 13th and Wheeler Streets in the Eastside community. The shooting occurred on Saturday, July 29, 2017; a bullet struck Collins in the head and killed her. Her father, Antonio Collins, was sitting in the backseat and was seriously wounded but survived.

Witnesses reported seeing a hooded figure flee on foot, but no one initially identified the shooter. Investigators say the case stalled for more than two years because those present on the crowded street corner would not cooperate. Detectives later secured witness cooperation after an individual present at the shooting was arrested on an unrelated matter and identified Jermaine Lamont Beamon as the shooter; another inmate testified that Beamon had admitted the killing. Beamon was indicted in November 2019 on murder and first-degree assault charges and was extradited from Ohio to face them.

Does anyone who lived in that neighborhood in 2017 remember unusual activity or people near 13th and Wheeler Streets that night?