On the evening of August 28, 2018, two-year-old Natalya Bellah was found unresponsive at a home on Brown Thrasher Run in Oxford, Georgia. Deputies responding to a 911 call by Natalya’s mother, Jennifer Michelle Bellah, recovered a pistol, a spent shell casing, and bullets. Natalya was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds; the mother and grandmother were the only other people in the house that night.

Investigators reported that Jennifer Bellah had been seeking treatment for mental health issues in the weeks and days before the shooting. A search of the home turned up prescription antidepressants and written eulogies for herself and her daughter. In a voicemail to her brother the day of the shooting she spoke of Natalya in the past tense and later admitted she feared her daughter would be taken and harmed.

Jennifer Bellah, 31 at arrest, was charged with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. In August 2020 she pleaded Guilty but Mentally Ill to felony murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison with no parole, followed by lifetime probation. Did anyone in the Oxford area know Natalya or have information about what led up to that night?