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Diona McDonald was a 19-year-old student from Southfield, Michigan, studying music at Bethune-Cookman University when she was shot and killed in her off-campus apartment in Daytona Beach, Florida, on September 17, 2015. Her friend and classmate Timesha Carswell, 21, was also killed in the same attack; a third roommate, Micah Parham, was shot and critically injured and survived.

Authorities identified 27-year-old York Zed Bodden as the shooter. Bodden, who had previous arrests for kidnapping, robbery and drug offenses, had been behind on rent and was being evicted by McDonald, Carswell and Parham. A fight during the eviction reportedly led Bodden to retrieve a firearm, return to the apartment and shoot the two women at point-blank range.

A statewide manhunt led to Bodden’s capture in North Miami the next day; he was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated assault and was later found dead in his jail cell. Who in the Daytona Beach or Bethune-Cookman communities remembers Diona or has information about that night?