On July 3, 2015, a dispute in the parking lot of Highland Lakes Apartments in Norcross, Georgia, ended with 29-year-old Lynett Karim found fatally shot inside her SUV, which had crashed into a tree. Neighbors reported hearing a man and a woman fighting and then gunshots; police discovered Karim wounded in the vehicle.

Rickey Williams, 36, who lived in the same complex in a different building, was identified by witnesses as involved in an affair with Karim. Witness testimony and court evidence describe Williams punching Karim through the open driver’s side window, then calling his wife and asking her to bring a firearm. After his wife delivered the weapon, Williams used it to shoot Karim. Williams remained at the scene and told an officer he was the shooter, claiming self-defense.

Williams was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault, convicted after a three-day trial in May 2017, and received a life sentence. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the conviction in June 2020. Does anyone have additional information about Karim’s life or the events that led up to that morning?