In mid-July 2021, officers conducting a welfare check at a home in the 3200 block of Woodland Avenue found 63-year-old Shirley Ransom-Muhammad and two of her children, Tyla and Jaelin Ransom, dead of stab wounds. Jaelin was located on a stair landing; Shirley and Tyla were found upstairs. Each victim had a $100 bill placed on them at the scene.

Investigators focused on Shirley’s 38-year-old son, Rahman M. Muhammad. Family members told police Shirley had been worried about Rahman’s increasingly aggressive behavior and that he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after a recent prison release. At the house, police recovered a bent, broken serrated kitchen knife with what appeared to be blood and a pair of bloodied boxer shorts containing DNA that was reported as likely matching Jaelin and Rahman. Rahman later went to a hospital for a wrist injury the night before the bodies were found, and the following day he approached officers asking for a ride to the Woodland Avenue home; he was then taken into custody and charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of armed criminal action.

Does anyone have information about the family or the Woodland Avenue neighborhood that could shed light on what happened?