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Seventeen-year-old Kaylynn Voegele was fatally shot in the late evening of May 4, 2016, inside a Burien condominium complex. Residents reported hearing a loud fight in a hallway and multiple gunshots around 10:30 p.m. When officers arrived, Voegele had a gunshot wound to her head and was pronounced dead at the scene. She was a junior at Mt. Rainier High School.

Her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gianni Cunningham, was with her during the incident. Cunningham initially told investigators the shooting was a drive-by by a man in a black BMW, but detectives found his account contradicted by evidence and witness statements. A neighbor said he watched the incident through a peephole and saw Cunningham playing with a handgun; the witness reported Voegele repeatedly told him to put it away and at one point said she wasn’t afraid of him, then saw Cunningham point the gun at Voegele’s face and fire. Investigators also say two further shots were fired into a hallway door in an apparent effort to stage a drive-by; ballistics suggested those shots were fired from inside the building.

Cunningham was arrested and charged as an adult with second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm; he was on probation at the time for a prior firearms offense and his attorney later said the shooting was an accident. Did anyone in the building or neighborhood see events before or after 10:30 p.m. that could shed more light on what happened?