Shadetta L. Franklin, known as Detta to friends and family, was 29 when she was found with a gunshot wound to the head near a liquor store in Syracuse, New York, on the evening of September 17, 2020. She was taken to a hospital and died of her injuries on September 19, 2020. Franklin was a mother to a son and a daughter.

Authorities arrested 22-year-old Anthony Sutton Jr. on September 29, 2020, charging him with Franklin’s murder; investigators did not immediately disclose a motive. In the days after her death the neighborhood saw further violence: on September 20, 2020, 30-year-old Tyree Lawson was shot dead two blocks from where Franklin had been found. Lawson’s family said they believed he was mistaken for someone else.

Prosecutors later alleged the Lawson killing was retaliatory and that a separate suspect, Mysean Griswold, had also shot and wounded a man the same day Franklin was shot. Two other people were accused of lesser roles in the alleged retaliation. Has anyone in the Syracuse area been in contact with Franklin’s family or witnessed activity near the liquor store on September 17, 2020?