Prosecutors said the shooting might have been a result of mistaken identity. Around 10 p.m. that night, Meyers was teaching her 15-year-old daughter, Kristal Meyers, to drive in the schools parking lot. After the lesson was finished, a man driving a gray sedan swerved around their car, bumped into them, stepped out of his car and threatened to kill them, Kristal Meyers told a grand jury. That person was neither Nowsch nor Andrews, prosecutors said.
Tammy Meyers then drove home and called for her son to help look for the man who had threatened her, according to grand jury testimony.
When Meyers spotted Andrews silver Audi, she believed it was the same car she encountered earlier and started to follow.
Ms. Meyers ultimately was mistaken, Stanton said. Coincidentally, now you have kind of a series of dominoes falling with Ms. Meyers pulling behind what she thinks is the earlier car.
Nowsch was in the passenger seat of Andrews car with a Ruger .45-caliber handgun.
Andrews drove a few hundred yards before stopping the car in the middle of the street. Nowsch leaned out the passenger window and fired at the Meyers Buick about two blocks away.
Meyers turned and headed back home, and Andrews and Nowsch gave chase.
Meyers stopped her car in the street outside her home, where she was caught in a hail of 24 rounds from Nowschs gun, and died two days later, Stanton said.
Nowsch and Andrews sped away, switched cars and then deleted each other from their cell phones in an attempt to hide their communications, Stanton said.
