Khira Bernetta Denise Ruth McKinley, a 23-year-old African American woman, was found dead in her car on July 4, 2019, in the 7200 block of Oakwinds Court in Charlotte, North Carolina. Police responded around 8:42 a.m. to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon and pronounced Khira dead at the scene after officers discovered she had sustained a gunshot wound. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department classified the death as a homicide.

Witnesses said they heard gunshots early that morning and at first thought the sounds were fireworks because of Independence Day. The shooting was the city’s 60th homicide investigation of the year, surpassing the prior year’s total. An arrest was made when Jerome Davis Jr. was taken into custody in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on August 5, 2019, and charged with murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied property inflicting serious bodily injury.

Does anyone in the Oakwinds Court area remember seeing or hearing anything unusual that morning, or have information that could help fill gaps in the timeline?