Natalia Monet Cox, 21, a senior biology major at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, was shot to death in the early hours of Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Police are investigating the case.
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Natalia Monet Cox, 21, a senior biology major at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, was shot to death in the early hours of Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Police are investigating the case.
Sia Marie Xiong was shot to death on Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Compton, California. Police have no suspects in the murder. Her family is pushing for the case to be handled as a hate crime.
Nicolette Law, 20, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, stopped in a local Walmart on Friday, February 26, 2021 to pick up a few items when things would soon turn chaotic. She was shot to death in a parking lot confrontation.
Brittany Hunt, 23, was behind the wheel driving her two 5-year-olds and an unidentified adult on Monday, March 8, 2021 when she was fatally shot in Lumberton, North Carolina.
Eighteen-year-old Cierra Young was found slumped over the wheel of her car after a two-vehicle crash on Sunday, February 14, 2021.
The body of Brittany Samone Smith, 28, was found Monday, February 8, 2021 near a North Carolina river. She was pregnant with a son. Two suspects have been charged, but the investigation continues.
Katara Bray, 22, was found shot to death behind the wheel of a car on Monday, February 8, 2021 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. An investigation is ongoing.
On Thursday, February 4, 2021, Raeneshia Nixon, 19, of Columbia, South Carolina, was fatally shot while driving with her infant in the car. Police are asking for your help.
Desiree Marie Colter, 31, was shot to death on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona in a murder-suicide, according to police.
Sharita Brooks, 30, was shot in the head while giving a man a ride home while her 8-month-old daughter was in the backseat. Police found her body in the car on Monday, January 18, 2021. The child was unharmed.
Shamaya Dickerson was shot to death at an Airbnb party in Columbus, Ohio in the early morning of Sunday, January 10, 2021. Police are asking the public for help in solving her murder.
The body of Nyteisha Lattimore, 29, was found on Saturday, December 12, 2020 near a bridge on the Ohio River in Cincinnati. Authorities are still looking for her 3-year-old son. Her boyfriend has been arrested.
Kennedy Maxie, 7, was shot in the back of the head while riding in a car with her family near an Atlanta mall on December 21, 2020. She died on Saturday, December 27, 2020.
Destiny Washington, a 20-year-old nursing student was shot dead on the UAB campus about 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, December 16, 2020.
Shavon Mitchell, 28, was fatally shot by a man identified by police as her former boyfriend around 11:15 p.m. on November 30, 2020. The gunman was later shot dead by police in a firefight.
Ebony Hedges, 38, was sitting in a parked car on the side of the road when she was shot several times in Silverton. Ohio. Police are still searching for the suspect.
Remy Lee, a 31-year-old mother who was eight months pregnant, was shot multiple times at a housing complex on Thursday, October 29, 2020. She succumbed, but gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
Shatia S. Brooks, 33, was shot in the head early Friday, October 23, 2020 in her home in Decatur, Illinois. Police continue to investigate.
Pregnant mother Stacey Jones, 35, was found with two gunshots in her back on her Chicago porch early Tuesday, October 13, 2020, police said. Doctors were able to deliver her baby, who is in critical condition.
The body of Brooklyn DeShauna Smith, 20, was found inside a west Shreveport, Louisiana apartment around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2020. She was shot to death, authorities confirmed.