Howard Richard Popp Jr., 39, was fatally shot during a domestic dispute in Laurel, Maryland, on August 20, 2014. Popp and a woman who had separated from her husband, Robert Babauta Mendiola, were sitting in a vehicle in the 3300 block of Sudlersville South when Mendiola approached on foot. After Popp and the woman exited the vehicle, Mendiola shot Popp multiple times; officers found Popp deceased at the scene.

Mendiola fled but was later located in a shed in the 300 block of Old Line Avenue. When police tried to contact him, he shot himself and suffered life-threatening injuries before being taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Hospital. Mendiola was charged with first- and second-degree murder and violating a protective order his estranged wife had obtained the previous month.

Did anyone in Laurel at the time see or hear anything that might shed light on what led up to the shooting?