On August 6, 2010, a quadruple homicide was discovered in Lanham, Maryland. Four people were found shot to death in a second-floor apartment above a detached garage on the 6800 block of Third Street: 38-year-old Dawn Yvette Brooks; her two young children, 4-year-old Shakur Sylvester Sikyala and 3-year-old Shayla Shante Sikyala; and the children’s paternal aunt, 41-year-old Mwasiti Sikyala. Police described Brooks’s killing as execution-style.

The apartment was reported to be in deplorable condition, without running water or toilets and cluttered with trash. Investigators linked the killings to a dispute over marijuana and arrested two people from Texas: 43-year-old Darrell Lynn Bellard and 18-year-old Tkeisha Nicole Gilmer, charging both with first-degree murder. Gilmer later pleaded guilty and testified that she stood guard while Bellard carried out the shootings.

Does anyone have information about Dawn Brooks, the family, or the events leading up to August 6, 2010?