Keaira Hudson was 30 and a mother of three when she was killed on the morning of October 5, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. As she sat in her car preparing to take her children to school at the intersection of Richlawn and Shawnee Avenues, a pickup truck intentionally struck her vehicle. The truck’s driver, her estranged husband Adam Bennefield, then exited with a shotgun and fatally shot her while the children were inside the car.

Hudson had been living in fear in the months before her death, wearing a bulletproof vest and telling her mother Bennefield intended to kill her. She had posted a video showing a prior assault and said she was treated as the abuser. On October 4, 2022, Bennefield was arrested for a violent domestic incident against Hudson but was released that same day despite an order of protection. After the killing he fled and was the subject of a manhunt before his capture.

Does anyone have information about Hudson’s attempts to get help or about the October 4 arrest that could shed light on how the protective measures failed?