On March 12, 2015, Phillip PJ Banka, 33, and his girlfriend Jessica R. Thompkins, 30, were found shot to death inside a home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after a domestic dispute escalated to violence. Terrick L. Thompkins, Jessica’s ex-husband, was identified as the sole suspect; court evidence indicated he fired multiple rounds before entering the house and then shot both victims. Investigators recovered at least 32 shell casings at the scene.

A 13-year-old boy in the home was struck by a bullet fragment but survived and escaped through a window to get help from a neighbor. Terrick Thompkins was arrested, convicted by a jury in May 2018 of two counts of first-degree murder plus child abuse, aggravated burglary, and shooting at an occupied dwelling, and received a life sentence; an appeal was later rejected by the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Are there readers who remember the neighborhood or saw anything unusual in Alamogordo around March 12, 2015?