Davonte Shamar Powell, 20, was killed by a gunshot to the head outside a vape shop in South Boston, Virginia, on a December Saturday evening. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A 17-year-old male also suffered a neck wound in the same shooting and later died at a hospital.

South Boston Police, the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office and Virginia State Police investigated. A 17-year-old Halifax County resident voluntarily surrendered and was charged with two counts of second-degree murder; authorities recovered a handgun believed to be the weapon. Powell, known to friends as Tae, was a 2017 graduate of Halifax County High School and a former member of the football team.

What details from that night or the people involved might help explain how this erupted into such deadly violence?