On the evening of 18 May 2012, in a quiet gated condominium community in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a seventeen-year-old boy dialled 911 from inside.

He was bleeding. He told the dispatcher his grandmother had shot him, and that he was going to die.

Before help could reach him, more shots rang out.

The woman who fired them was not a stranger, she was Sandra Layne, his grandmother.

When police arrived at the scene, she told them: "I murdered my grandson."

What had happened inside that home?

Was this the act of a frightened, elderly woman defending herself against a troubled and volatile teenager?

Or was it something else entirely?

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