On the morning of December 15, 2018, 21-year-old Ahmira McDaniel was shot and killed inside a family home in the 2100 block of Cherry Avenue in Hillsdale, St. Louis County, Missouri. McDaniel, an honors student at Lane College who had returned home to spend time with family, was among several people in the house when a man knocked, reportedly identified himself as police to gain entry, forced his way inside and opened fire.

Dontay Davis, 25, McDaniel’s brother-in-law, was also fatally shot. Young children between seven months and seven years old were in the home and were witnesses but were not physically harmed. The St. Louis County Police Department treated the deaths as a double homicide.

Detectives identified a suspect and on December 18, 2018 prosecutors charged 26-year-old Marvin Butler-Dickerson of St. Louis with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of first-degree burglary; he was taken into custody and held without bond. Does anyone have information about Ahmira’s life in Hillsdale or memories of her that could help the record?