LaCole Veronica Hines was 17 and a new mother to a six-week-old son when she was shot in Landover, Maryland on August 9, 2010. The shooting occurred on the 2600 block of Brightseat Road as she was about to enter a liquor store; she was taken to a hospital and died three days later on August 12, 2010.

The attack grew out of a custody dispute with her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Marcus Desmond Shipman. Weeks earlier, on July 25, Shipman allegedly threatened Hines with a gun, and a felony arrest warrant for first-degree assault was issued. That warrant was mistakenly filed with misdemeanor warrants and never served by the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office, leaving Shipman at liberty.

Prosecutors described the daytime shooting as an execution. Shipman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder; a second person, 16-year-old Carl Andre Jones of Washington, D.C., was also charged. In September 2011 a jury found Shipman guilty of first-degree murder and using a handgun in a crime of violence; on October 14, 2011, he was sentenced to life without parole. The family has said the earlier, unserved warrant contributed to the tragedy.

If anyone knew LaCole, her movements that day, or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.