Kimberly Gail Pitts Lanier, 46, was found inside her home on Prather Bridge Road in Toccoa, Georgia, with a fatal gunshot wound on the morning of Monday, September 29, 2014. She was pronounced dead at the scene by the Stephens County Coroner. Lanier was a local business owner, proprietor of the Cutting Edge Day Spa, and the wife of the Shiloh Volunteer Fire Department chief.

A 15-year-old boy who lived at the residence placed a 911 call reporting a shooting. After an investigation by local authorities and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the boy was taken into custody. A search warrant was executed at the family home and evidence was processed. He was charged with malice murder, later indicted on Malice Murder, Felony Murder, and Aggravated Assault, and a judge ordered a competency evaluation in October 2014.

In September 2015 a judge found the teen not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered him detained in a state mental health facility for evaluation of his present mental condition. The community held a candlelight vigil in Lanier’s memory. Did anyone in the Toccoa area have information about Kimberly’s life or the events leading up to that morning?