On a Tuesday afternoon in October 2021, first responders in Troup County, Georgia, found 29-year-old Akelia Ware unresponsive inside her wrecked Honda Accord on Highway 18. The vehicle had been struck by multiple gunshots; Ware had been shot and was rushed to a Columbus-area hospital in critical condition. She and her unborn child, a boy she was 33 weeks pregnant with, later died from their injuries.

Investigators traced evidence from the scene, including parts of a silver Nissan, to Alonzo Dargan Jr., a 30-year-old active-duty U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg who had attended school with Ware in Troup County and was identified as the father of her unborn child. Authorities say Dargan followed Ware, shot at her vehicle and caused her to run off the road. He was arrested two days after Ware’s death in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and extradited to Georgia on charges including murder, feticide and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Ware was a registered nurse and a mother of five; family remembered her as a loving parent who was looking forward to the baby and planning to buy a new home for her growing family. Does anyone have information about Akelia Ware’s movements that afternoon or about the vehicle linked to the suspect?