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A house party on Gallery Avenue in Virginia Beach on April 5, 2015, ended with 20-year-old Crystal Stevenson shot in the street after an argument moved outside. Police found her in the road in front of the home after a call around 2:15 a.m. The investigation quickly centered on a person of interest after authorities released surveillance imagery to the public.

Michael Frederick Hines, 22, of Suffolk turned himself in after his image was circulated; a witness had noted he wore a shirt reading hustle gang, and detectives located footage of him at a 7-Eleven that night. Another man, 26-year-old Garlan Dixon, was seen leaving the scene in a white Audi and was stopped for unrelated charges, but he was not charged in Stevenson’s death despite a witness placing him at the party and what appeared to be blood found in the car.

Hines was charged with murder, later confessed after speaking with his father at the station, and a jury convicted him in August 2016 of voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was sentenced in February 2017 to a total of 13 years in prison. Did anyone at the party or on Gallery Avenue that night see something that could still help clarify how the argument escalated?