Deanna Downs, 29, was found dead in a courtyard behind her Egg Harbor City apartment building shortly after midnight on October 16, 2010. Initial examination suggested blunt force trauma, but investigators later determined she had been fatally shot in the head. Downs had spent the evening with her fiancé, James Sanders, and their two young sons; she was reportedly lured outside while the children slept and was killed.

Prosecutors say the killing was connected to Downs having witnessed a deadly shooting in the same complex on October 12, 2009. A six-month investigation by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office and Egg Harbor City Police determined the slaying was part of a murder-for-hire plot to silence a witness. Three men were charged: Rafael Olmo was accused of arranging the killing, Mario Adams was accused of carrying out the attack for pay, and Dontay Matthews was accused of monitoring Downs and alerting Adams when she was alone.

What does anyone who lived in or around the Harbor City complex in 2009–2010 remember about the shootings or people who might have been watching residents’ movements?