On the afternoon of April 4, 2017, 24-year-old Margaret Hooks, a Black woman, was shot in the head inside a home on Koon Road near Farrow Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Emergency responders transported her to a local hospital, where medical staff pronounced her dead; the Richland County Coroner and an autopsy attributed her death to a gunshot wound to the head.

Within a day investigators announced an arrest, charging her brother, Daquan Willie Scott, with murder, possession of a stolen firearm, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. Police said a K-9 team recovered the suspected murder weapon at the scene and that the handgun had been reported stolen from Chicago; motive was described as still under investigation. No other suspects were named in public reports.

Funeral services were arranged in Columbia with burial planned in Gadsden as the family prepared to mourn. Does anyone have information about Margaret’s life, the neighborhood, or the events that afternoon?