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Stephen Marquis Gaines, 29 and known as Spud, was fatally shot in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 24, 2016. His death came in the early hours of that Sunday after an earlier shooting about an hour before. Authorities said Gaines had been accused of firing at a woman in that prior incident; she was not injured.

Investigators treated Gaines’s killing as retaliatory. The Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit identified a 17-year-old male, Kylan Tbo Lewis (also reported as Kylan Lewis), and charged him with murder, booking him into the Tuscaloosa County Jail with bond set at $75,000. Reports indicated Lewis was related to the woman allegedly shot at before Gaines’s death.

What can anyone who was in Tuscaloosa that night add about the earlier shooting or the events that followed?