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On the evening of January 26, 2016, 45-year-old Jeannine Louise Brooks-Zapata was fatally shot while visiting friends at a homeless encampment known as The Jungle in Seattle. Gunfire at the gathering left Brooks-Zapata and another person dead and three others wounded. Family members say she had overcome addiction, was no longer homeless, and was happily living with her partner in the years before her death.

Police arrested three teenage brothers six days after the shooting. Investigators determined the motive was a drug-related robbery: the brothers went to the encampment to collect a $500 drug debt owed to their mother, opened fire on the group around a fire, and stole heroin and several hundred dollars in cash. Two older brothers, James and Jerome Taafulisia, were charged as adults with two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault; the youngest brother was charged in juvenile court.

Does anyone have memories of Jeannine or information about that night that could help fill gaps in the timeline?