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Margaret Sheffield, a 77-year-old woman from Dacula, Georgia, was found dead in her home on September 11, 2015. A family member discovered her after not hearing from her for about a day. Gwinnett County police treated the death as a homicide after finding evidence of a violent attack.

Authorities arrested a nearby neighbor, 16-year-old James Hiram Akil Watkins, and charged him as an adult with felony murder, aggravated assault, and burglary. Investigators and a grand jury alleged Watkins stabbed Sheffield with a knife, beat her, and shot her with a pellet gun; theft was described as the apparent motive. Neighbors said Watkins had prior run-ins with law enforcement and police had been called to his residence on multiple occasions.

The suspect was held at a regional youth detention center and the community was left reeling from the violence against a beloved grandmother and great-grandmother. Does anyone have information about Margaret Sheffield or the events in that neighborhood around September 2015?