On the evening of August 26, 2020, violence erupted at the Carriage Circle Apartments on Auburn Avenue in Pontiac, Michigan. Shortly after 9 p.m., four men were shot in what police describe as the result of a long-simmering dispute. Three of the victims died: Montray Jamar Money Morris, 29, Dominque Latrell Williams, 28, and Kenrick Keon Lanehart, 39. A 25-year-old man was critically wounded but survived.

Officials say the four men were on the porch of an apartment when 32-year-old resident Kenneth Durell Clay allegedly opened fire and then fled. Clay later turned himself in to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, the weapon believed to have been used was recovered, and he was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and multiple firearm offenses; he was arraigned and denied bond.

What details about that night or the years-long dispute might help explain how this confrontation escalated to such deadly violence?