A dispute over unpaid rent in a Savannah house on Lynah Street escalated into a deadly attack in October 2015. Nineteen-year-old Alexis Kitchens lived in the Carver Village home with siblings Kiana Marshall and Corey Marshall. Two other roommates, Diamond Butler and Jamaica Bell, had been asked to move out for not paying their share of the rent, and that eviction dispute set the scene for what followed.

On the morning of October 22, 2015, police conducting a wellness check found Alexis, 21-year-old Kiana Marshall, and 18-year-old Corey Marshall each shot multiple times. Prosecutors say Butler was angry about being evicted and wanted the house shot up; that night, James Angelo Hampton and Dwayne Leonard Abney allegedly went to the house under the pretense of collecting Butler’s belongings. Testimony at trial described Corey being shot first when he opened the door, followed by Kiana and then Alexis as she tried to flee.

Jury verdicts in December 2017 found Hampton guilty in all three deaths and Abney guilty in the killings of Alexis and Kiana. Does anyone have information about the household or neighborhood in Carver Village that could shed light on what led to this violence?