Jacobia English Lane, a 39-year-old African American woman from Sumter, South Carolina, was shot and killed on October 22, 2016, in Gastonia, North Carolina. She was sitting on a couch inside her brother’s home around 12:30 a.m. while in town for her sister-in-law’s funeral when a bullet struck the back of her head. About 30 rounds were fired into the house from a high-powered rifle; a teen in the home was wounded in the arm but survived, and her 13-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter witnessed the killing. Twenty-seven people were in the house at the time and no one else was injured.

Family members described the attack as a senseless, unprovoked act of violence and said the family has been devastated. Police have been asking the public for help identifying the shooter; as of the last report there have been no arrests and the investigation remains open.

Did anyone in the Gastonia area see or hear anything that night that could help identify the gunman?