Corrigan, who lived on the 3300 block of Coral Street in Kensington and worked as a roofer, had a heroin addiction and had been previously arrested for selling drugs. Still, his parents and Wakefield's neighbors said they had never known him to be abusive to Wakefield, whom they said had a problem with alcohol. It was not immediately known if either Corrigan or Wakefield was drinking or was on drugs at the time of the shooting.