Mary Ann Thompson, 56, was shot to death in her Lumberton, North Carolina, home on February 27, 2015. The shooting occurred about 3:30 a.m.; an unknown assailant fired into the house at 110 Front Street while Thompson lay sleeping beside her husband. She was taken to Southeastern Regional Medical Center and died of her injuries.

No suspects or arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Almost a year later the family suffered another loss when Thompson’s 25-year-old grandson, Marquese Antonio Nicholson, was fatally shot while sitting in his vehicle on Gavintown Road on January 18, 2016; that murder also remains unsolved.

Anyone who knew the family or who has information about either shooting is asked to contact the Lumberton Police Department, the Robeson County District Attorney’s Office, or the State Bureau of Investigation.