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A dispute over selling CDs in a shopping center parking lot in April 2014 escalated into deadly violence at Southside Plaza in Richmond, Virginia. The male victim, 44-year-old Antonio Harris, and his brother had earlier confronted a man named Shawne Cotten; that confrontation reportedly included an assault on Cotten and damage to his vehicle. Later that evening Cotten returned to the plaza with his fiancée, Jodi Hope, and his mother.

As the Harris brothers walked away in the parking lot, Hope opened fire, discharging her weapon multiple times. Antonio Harris was struck and killed; his brother was also shot and survived. Both Harris brothers were unarmed at the time. A Chesterfield woman and nursing assistant, Jodi Hope, was arrested and charged in the double shooting. At trial Hope argued self-defense; the jury rejected that claim and found her guilty of second-degree murder, aggravated malicious wounding, and two firearms offenses, recommending a 48-year prison term.

Did anyone see or hear the confrontation at Southside Plaza that night, or know more about the events leading up to the shooting?