Pamela Michelle Burgess was 35 when she was shot to death in her West Ashley home in Charleston, South Carolina, on the morning of August 5, 2015. She worked as a paralegal at Parker Poe, taught dance at Amorous Dance Pole & Fitness, and served as an officer in the Daughters of the Nile, Milcah Temple No. 77. She is described as a devoted mother to a two-year-old son.

The father of her child, William Thomas Gule Jr., shot her four times in the head while she was in bed. In the month before the killing Burgess had asked Gule to move out; investigators later described a history of unreported domestic violence between the couple. Gule called 911 and initially said the shooting was an accident during a tussle, then surrendered in Summerville. Forensic evidence showed Burgess was shot while lying in bed.

A Charleston County jury later found William Thomas Gule Jr. guilty of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime; he received a 40-year sentence for murder with a concurrent five-year term for the firearms charge. Does anyone have information about Burgess’s life in West Ashley or the period before August 2015?