On the morning of July 5, 2017, 20-year-old Mayra Sanchez was brought to a Columbia, South Carolina, hospital in a wheelchair with a fatal gunshot wound to the upper body. Sanchez, a Richland Northeast High School graduate, died from that wound after being left at the hospital by her boyfriend, 24-year-old Albertus Lewis, who fled instead of reporting the shooting.

Authorities later arrested Lewis on obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony; investigators subsequently gathered evidence they say implicated him as the shooter and upgraded charges to murder while retaining the obstruction count. Sanchez’s family had a restraining order against Lewis, according to the case details. Lewis was released on a $150,000 bond in June 2019; in August 2020, while out on bond, he was involved in a shootout with deputies that left two officers injured and Lewis wounded while he was armed and holding a small child.

The motive for the shooting has not been reported. Does anyone have information about Sanchez, her life, or what happened that morning?