Catherine Ruth Ballard, 24, was shot and killed on April 1, 2017, in the parking lot near the front entrance of Independence Mall in Wilmington, North Carolina. Surveillance footage and court records show Ballard struggled with 26-year-old Darius Nelson inside the mall; Nelson was seen holding Ballard back as she slapped at 19-year-old Traneta Campbell, who was sitting in a nearby vehicle. After Ballard separated and began to walk away, Campbell exited the passenger seat and fired a pistol, firing five shots and striking Ballard once in the back of the head. Ballard was pronounced dead on arrival at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

Campbell and Nelson were arrested on April 3 in a shed behind a home on Monroe Street; the vehicle used in the killing was recovered and both confirmed it was the one from the incident. Court papers say Ballard and Nelson had broken up about two weeks earlier amid allegations Nelson was cheating, and tensions had been rising in the days before the killing. Campbell was charged with first-degree murder and Nelson with accessory after the fact. At the time of her death Ballard was enrolled full-time at Cape Fear Community College and worked part-time in the cafeteria at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

Does anyone have information about the events in the mall that afternoon or the moments immediately before the shooting?