On the morning of October 22, 2015, a neighbor in Savannah’s Carver Village noticed a front door ajar and a welfare check at a Lynah Street home found three people shot to death: 18-year-old Kiana Marshall, her 21-year-old brother Corey Marshall, and their 19-year-old roommate Alexis Kitchens. The killings followed a rent dispute in which two recent roommates, Diamond Butler and Jamaica Bell, had failed to pay and Kiana asked them to leave. Kiana spoke that morning to her mother, Regina Marshall, about having the non-paying roommates removed; that was their last conversation.

Investigators say an angered Diamond Butler recruited 22-year-old James Angelo Hampton and 18-year-old Dwayne Leonard Abney after being forced out. Butler later told prosecutors she asked Hampton to shoot up the house and was present when the plan was discussed. Hampton and Abney allegedly returned that night under the pretense of retrieving Butler’s belongings and carried out the shootings; testimony identified Hampton as the primary shooter with a 9mm and Abney armed with a .380.

Hampton and Abney were convicted in December 2017 on counts including malice murder and felony murder; Butler pleaded in exchange for her testimony and was later sentenced. What details about the night still need clearer explanation to anyone who knew the victims or the household?