On December 25, 2017, 24-year-old Lanisha S. Cadore went to an apartment in the 2300 block of East Tremont Court in Richmond to retrieve personal belongings from an ex-girlfriend. She was accompanied by two friends. According to investigators, Candace B. Timberlake confronted the group, produced a gun, and when Cadore and her friends tried to flee Timberlake fired, striking Cadore.

Cadore’s friends placed her in a vehicle and drove to the 7000 block of Forest Hill Avenue, where police found her about 10:25 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died of her injuries on December 29, 2017. Richmond detectives identified Timberlake, then 23 and from the 5000 block of Orcutt Lane, as the shooter. The aggravated assault charge was upgraded after Cadore’s death; in May 2018 Timberlake pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and in July 2018 received a 40-year sentence with 25 years suspended, leaving 15 years active.

What details about that night or the people involved might help explain how the confrontation escalated to gunfire?