Jalisa B. Bellamy was 31 when she was shot and killed in Wilmington, North Carolina, on December 25, 2020. She had attended a Christmas Eve gathering and left appearing happy; minutes later officers found the car she was driving crashed into a utility pole near Kenwood and Market streets. Both Bellamy and her passenger, 35-year-old Jeremy Williams, were shot. Williams, the father of Bellamy’s 2-year-old son, was treated and released from the hospital; Bellamy died of her injuries at the hospital.

The shooting was recorded as Wilmington’s 21st homicide of 2020; investigators have classified five of that year’s homicides as drive-by shootings. The case remains under investigation and no arrests have been announced. Bellamy was remembered by friends and family as classy and sophisticated, active in her church, and recently posting faith-focused motivational videos. Her sons Ahmad Bellamy and Jeremy Williams Jr survive her.

Did anyone in the Wilmington area see or hear anything around Kenwood and Market streets that night?