On the evening of November 6, 2016, Linh Thi Pham, 26, was sitting in her car in a Gainesville, Virginia parking lot after leaving work at a salon in the Virginia Gateway Promenade when she was fatally shot. First responders took her to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Police identified 33-year-old Ashburn resident Bryan Christopher Yu as a person of interest; investigators concluded the shooting was not random and noted Yu and Pham were acquaintances who shared a child and had a child support hearing scheduled the next day. Yu was arrested and initially charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Bryan Christopher Yu later entered an Alford plea to voluntary manslaughter; the more serious charges were dropped. In May 2017 a judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison, the maximum for that charge. Pham’s family agreed to the plea deal so Yu would remain incarcerated and not have access to their daughter, though they were unhappy with the sentence length.

Did anyone who knew Linh or her routine in Gainesville notice anything unusual that night?