Doloris Lowe McGrew was an African American woman, 68, who was killed on May 21, 2006, during a morning service at the Ministry of Jesus Christ Church on Dallas Drive in Baton Rouge. That small service included a handful of adults and several children; the mood turned to panic when Anthony Bell, estranged from his wife Erica Bell, came to the church, pressed for reconciliation and — when refused — returned with a handgun and opened fire inside the sanctuary.

Doloris McGrew was among relatives struck in the shooting, along with Leonard and Gloria Howard and Darlene Mills Selvage. The pastor, Claudia Brown, was shot in the back of the head but survived and was able to identify the shooter to a 911 operator after regaining consciousness. Prosecutors say Bell then forced Erica Bell and the children into a vehicle, made stops that left two children with relatives, and ended in an apartment-complex parking lot where Erica Bell was shot in the back of the head; Bell was arrested there shortly afterward.

A grand jury indicted Anthony Bell on June 15, 2006, for the first-degree murders of Erica Bell, Leonard Howard, Gloria Howard, Doloris McGrew and Darlene Mills Selvage and for the attempted first-degree murder of Claudia Brown; prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty. Did anyone in the Baton Rouge area attend that church or know Doloris McGrew’s family and their connections?