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WEBVTT SHE KNOWS WHYEVERYONE WAS HERE AT THE CARWASH THAT NIGHT.27-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM PORTERFIELD,BILLY, WAS ONE OF FOUR PEOPLEGUNNED DOWN BY TIM SMITH AT 2:50IN THE MORNING ON JANUARY 28 ATTHIS FAYETTE COUNTY CAR WASH.HE WAS THE FATHER OF A7-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, MCKENZIE,AND A 6-YEAR-OLD SON LEVI.HIS MOTHER SPOKE WITH US TONIGHTIN HER HOME.SO CLOSE TO THE CAR WASH, YOUCAN SEE IT FROM HER LIVING ROOM.SHE ASKED US NOT TO SHOW HERFACE.>> I DON'T LOOK OUT THE WINDOWWHEN I G PAST.WHEN I DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD, IDON'T LOOK THAT WAY.I TRY TO KEEP MY HEAD TURNED.REPORTER: PORTERFIELD SAYSFRIDAY'S FUNERAL FOR HER SON WASTHE SECOND WORST DAY OF HERLIFE, THE WORST BEING THE DAY HEWAS KILLED.FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'LEARNING WHY THE SHOOTER, TIMSMITH, BILLY, AND FOUR OTHERPEOPLE MET UP AT THAT CAR WASH.>> THE INTENTION WAS TO GO THEREAND FIST FIGHT, WHICH IS KIND OFLIKE THE MOUNTAINS USED TOALWAYS DO IT BACK IN THE DAY.REPORTER: A FIST FIGHT BETWEENTIM AND BILLY WHO WERE SEEN AT ABAR EARLIER THAT NIGHT IN ACONFRONTATION.BUT PORTERFIELD CALLED SMITH ACOWARD SAYING HE AMBUSHINGED HERSON AND THE OTHER VICTIMS WITHGUNS.BILLY'S FRIEND SAYS THOSE WHOSURVIVED WERE JUST THERE TOSUPPORT BILLY.>> IT'S JUST HEARTBREAKING, LIKEYOU PULL UP AND YOU DON'T EVENKNOW WHAT YOU'RE WALKING INTO,LIKE THEY HAD NO IDEA.REPORTER: BILLY'S FRIENDS ANDFAMILY DISPUTE WHAT HIS WIFETOLD ACTION NEWS 4 IN THE DAY OFTHE SHOOTING, THAT HE WASCHEATING ON HER WITH SMITH'SEX-GIRLFRIEND.BILLY'S FAMILY SAYS HE WAS ESEEING KLEIN, BUT SAY HE ANDJENNA HAD SPLIT BEFORE THESHOOTING.>> THEY WERE NOT LIVINGTOGETHER, THEY HAD BEENSEPARATED.REPORTER: BUT THE CONCERN NOWTURNS TO THE CHILDREN WHO HAVETO FIGURE OUT HOW TO COPE WITHTHE SUDDEN DEATH OF THEIRFATHER.>> YOU WAKE UP ONE DAY AND YOURDAD IS HERE AND THE NEXT MINUTEHE'S NOT.IT STILL JUST DOESN'T EVEN SEEMREAL.REPORTER: CLEARLY THIS COMMUNITYSTILL REELING AFTER THIS RECENTTRAGEDY, BUT THIS SATURDAYEVERYONE IS COMING TOGETHER FOR

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The six people involved in the Jan. 28 shooting in Melcroft met at the local car wash for a fistfight between one of the victims and the eventual shooter. This revelation came from Rhonda Porterfield, Wednesday, the mother of 27-year-old shooting victim William Porterfield. She said she learned the nature of the car wash fight, gathering from sources close to the investigation. The shooting left her son and four others dead, including the shooter, Timothy Smith. Smith died hours after the shooting in the hospital. His four victims all died at the scene of the shooting before 3 a.m. Another woman survived the shooting with minor injuries but has not been publicly identified by police. “The intention was to go there and fistfight, which is kind of like the mountains, you used to always do it back in the day," Porterfield said. Her son's close friend since childhood, Becca Stouffer, seconded the assertion that the car wash was supposed to be the site of a fight early that morning. “From multiple sources that I’ve talked to have said that Tim and Billy were meeting up to fistfight," Stouffer said. Prior to these statements, the reasoning behind the car wash as a late night meeting spot was unclear. Surveillance video did show Tim Smith grabbing William Porterfield from behind earlier that morning at the Tall Cedars bar, according to Porterfield's father, Scott Porterfield. Eleven days after the shooting that took her son's life, Rhonda Porterfield agreed to sit down at her Melcroft home to discuss the shooting with Pittsburgh's Action News 4 reporter Beau Berman. The home is just steps from the car wash. The murder scene is clearly visible from the Porterfield's living room window. “I don’t look out the window when I go past. And when I drive down the road. I don’t look that way. I try to keep my head turned," Porterfield told Berman. Her son's funeral was held Friday, a day that she described as the second worst of her life, behind only the day her son was killed. She said that tension between her family and her son's wife, Jenna Porterfield, have flared following his death. Jenna Porterfield told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 on the day of the shooting, that William, better known as Billy, had been cheating on her with Chelsie Cline, one of the other shooting victims. Billy's family and friends firmly dispute that claim. They said Billy and Jenna were married Nov. 18 and separated by Dec. 22. They said Chelsie was "seeing" Billy and living with the Porterfield's for the two weeks leading up to the shooting, but only after he and Jenna had separated. “They were not living together. They were separated. They had been separated," Rhonda Porterfield said. Jenna Porterfield told Berman a somewhat different story when asked again about the situation. "We split up Jan. 13 and we were always discussing getting back together. Of course I was completely in the dark that Chelsie and him were a thing and we went to the courthouse and were going to file. Then we decided as a married couples (sic) marriage is forever. So we decided to fix us," she said. However, text messages provided to Pittsburgh's Action News 4 between Jenna and Billy illustrate what appears to be a growing rift between the couple after Jan. 13 including continued talk of divorce and annulment. Billy's friends and family are now concerned with the welfare of his children, 7-year-old McKenzi and 6-year-old Levi. Their grandmother said they are in good hands but that she is still worried about them growing up without their father. Stouffer said the situation seems unreal in many ways. “You wake up one day and your dad’s here and the next minute he’s not," Stouffer said. Billy's mother didn't want to talk about her son's killer. "You don't want to even get me started on what I think about Tim," she said. But Rhonda Porterfield did discuss her feelings about Smith's family. “What I can tell you is, my heart goes out to that family because I’m pretty sure they didn’t raise him that way and regardless of the horrible thing that he did, I know that they still have to grieve for him. I’ve heard that they’ve been harassed to the point that they had to move and that’s just not right. They didn’t do this. They didn’t raise him to do this and I’m sure if there’s any way that they could have stopped it, they would have," she said. Smith's family released a statement after the shooting expressing their sorrow over the situation. The entire community is now left reeling after the tragic mass shooting in the center of the small village. “How do you find peace after losing a child? And friends … I mean how do you, really?” said Stouffer. Billy's mother said she sometimes thinks about moving out of the town because of the sorrow now associated with Melcroft. The community is hoping to have everyone come together Saturday, Feb. 10, for a fundraiser. The community benefit dinner will be held at Highlands Hall in Jones Mills, Pennsylvania, at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 and include dinner and a beverage. Memorial items will be available for purchase in addition to raffle baskets, chance games and entertainment. Proceeds will benefit the families of Chelsie Cline, Seth Cline, William Porterfield and Cortney Snyder.