On May 7, 2020, 31-year-old Brian Harris was found dead inside a residence on 9th Street in Niagara Falls, New York, having been both shot and stabbed. His 60-year-old mother, Sonia Hamilton, was found on the sidewalk outside the same home with multiple gunshot and stab wounds; she was taken to Erie County Medical Center and later died of her injuries.

A suspect, 31-year-old Billy Benton Jr., was identified quickly and arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, by a U.S. Marshals Task Force one day after the killings. Prosecutors later described the murders as unusually brutal; trial evidence said Harris was shot four times and stabbed twice, while Hamilton suffered four gunshot wounds and eleven stab wounds. A neighbor testified that Hamilton identified her attacker by the nickname B.J.

If anyone has information about Brian Harris, Sonia Hamilton, or the events around 9th Street on May 7, 2020, please come forward.