A fight over a game of pool at the Stardust Lounge in Inkster, Michigan, turned deadly on the morning of December 17, 2016. Twenty-six-year-old Joseph Franklin, a Black man from Dearborn Heights and a father of three, was shot once in the torso in the club’s parking lot after an altercation with a man later identified as his cousin, 28-year-old Rashard Bell of Ypsilanti. Franklin’s mother was with him when he died at the scene.

Michigan State Police named Bell the primary suspect, conducted an intensive search, and took him into custody later that day. Bell was charged with first-degree murder, carrying a concealed weapon, being a felon in possession of a firearm, using a firearm to commit a felony, and with habitual offender enhancements; he was held without bond. Reports say Bell had recently reconnected with family after serving an eight-year prison sentence.

What details about that night or the relationship between the men might help explain how a dispute over pool ended in this fatal shooting?