Kiera Williams, 28, was killed in a shooting on the afternoon of March 1, 2021, while sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked outside a Family Dollar on Floyd Road in Columbus, Georgia. Her friend and the driver, 30-year-old Jasmine Trice, was shot and died at the scene. Kiera was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Kiera’s six-year-old daughter was in the backseat and witnessed the attack but was not physically harmed.

Kiera had broken up with her ex-boyfriend about two weeks earlier and reported a pattern of stalking and threatening text messages; the night before the killings multiple gunshots were fired into her parents’ home. Investigators identified 25-year-old Quartez Tremon Thomas as the suspect. Witnesses said the shooter fled in a dark-colored SUV later identified as a Kia Sorento that had been carjacked in Phenix City the day before. Thomas was arrested the next day in Phenix City and extradited to Georgia on two counts of murder.

Thomas later faced additional charges for an incident in jail on May 16, 2021, and pleaded guilty in October 2023 to aggravated assault on a peace officer and related charges connected to that incident; a judge sentenced him in that matter to 15 years with five years to serve.

Did anyone in the Columbus area know Kiera or Jasmine, or have information about the days before March 1, 2021?