Shaquana Jordan, a mother in Portsmouth, Virginia, was fatally shot on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in her apartment. Her two children were home when the shots were fired. Her husband has been arrested.
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Shaquana Jordan, a mother in Portsmouth, Virginia, was fatally shot on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in her apartment. Her two children were home when the shots were fired. Her husband has been arrested.
Karen "Reyna," Dunlap, 30, was found deceased in an abandoned building in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 18, 2025. She had been last seen in the fall of 2024
Jennier Roundtree, 43, a mother of four, was stabbed to death during a fight involving more than 20 women outside a Staten Island apartment complex on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Police have made one arrest.
LaShunda McLendon, 42, of Charlotte was fatally shot on Friday, December 13, 2024, after getting into a fight with Ebonee Makeesa Rhaman, 43, outside a convenience store in the city.
London Olsen, 11, of Baltimore, Maryland, was strangled on Thursday, January 23, 2025, in her family’s Middle River home. Her mother has been charged with murder.
According to police, Ka’Niyah Baker, 13, had been missing from foster care in Columbia, South Carolina since January 12, 2025. Her burned and stabbed body was found three days later.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 33-year-old Chelsea Milledge, a mother of four, was fatally shot in her home in Albany, Georgia. A 21-year-old man has been arrested.
Authorities believe Krystal Anderson, a mother from Aiken County, South Carolina, was killed on August 20, 2022, by her boyfriend, Tony Berry, and stuffed her body into the trunk of his car.
Washington, D.C. resident Alexis Shuler, 29, went missing on Friday, January 10, 2025 after being with her boyfriend and the father of one of her children. Her body was found between a newly built wall in his home. He is charged with murder.
On the night of Saturday, January 18, 2025, Taylor J. Wilkinson, 20, was walking alongside her older sister on a Roxbury roadside when they were struck by a vehicle. The impact killed Wilkinson, while her sister survived. The driver fled the scene.
The body of Tracy Nyariki, 31, was found in her former partner’s vehicle in Aberdeen, Maryland. Police siad that she had been dismembered.
Chaquanda Latise Odom, 36, of California, Maryland, was shot to death on January 3, 2025 inside her vehicle in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her ex-husband has been charged.
Monet Newton, 24, worked with the Phoenix Suns and was days away from graduating after earning her master’s degree. She was found in a Glendale, Arizona residence unalived in a murder-suicide on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
Star Tucker, 30, was killed on Thursday, January 2, 2025, about 8 p.m. in what authorities describe as a “domestic” incident.
Tiffany Woods was shot to death on December 27, 2024, in Hammond, Indiana. Her ex-husband is wanted in relation to the killing. He is believed to be in Chicago.
Mahogany Jackson, 20, was abducted, tortured and sexually assaulted by a group of youths she thought were her friends. Her body was found on Monday, Feb. 27, 2024 in a wooded area of the city.
Brittany Bolden, 34, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was shot to death on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2024. She leaves behind four children.
Egypt Zapporah Carter, 23, was shot and killed while in her car in a quiet neighborhood in Woodbridge, Virginia, on Feb. 2, 2024, around 2 a.m.
Jo’Miya Ann Wilson, 20, was fatally shot on December 2, 2024, in a domestic-related event in Hazel Green, Alabama, according to authorities, who continue to investigate.