Shameika Danielle Robison was 28 when she was found dead inside her apartment at the Southport Apartments in Shreveport, Louisiana on June 5, 2021. She died of multiple gunshot wounds, and investigators treated the case as a domestic violence killing with suspicion focused on her boyfriend.

Authorities arrested Benjamin Franklin the day after Robison’s body was discovered and initially charged him with second-degree murder. Investigators later linked Franklin to a May armed robbery of a Circle K and alleged he shot Robison multiple times to prevent her from identifying him in that robbery.

At trial in March 2024 the prosecution presented evidence that Robison had been shot twenty times. Franklin’s defense entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which a state medical expert disputed. The jury found Benjamin Franklin guilty of Robison’s murder; he faces a mandatory life sentence.

If anyone knew Shameika, her movements that spring, or has information about the robbery or the days leading to June 5, please share what is known.