A dispute tied to a rap battle ended in gunfire in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood on August 26, 2018. Michael Allen, a 41-year-old Black man, was found with a gunshot wound between two apartment buildings and later died at a hospital. The confrontation reportedly began after Allen won the rap battle and made a disparaging comment about a woman a rival was seeing.

Investigators identified Keith L. Epps as the person who confronted Allen that same day and shot him in the chest. Epps was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. In July 2019 Epps entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder and received a 15-year prison sentence for Allen’s killing.

Did anyone in Church Hill that day see the confrontation or the events leading up to it?