Agata Filipska Vellotti, 43, was shot and killed on the morning of August 30, 2012, outside her apartment building in the Wakefield townhome community near North Forest Pines Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina. She had emigrated from a small farm town outside Krakow, Poland, moved to the U.S. in 2007 after marrying Mario Vellotti in 2005, and was an artist by training with a 6-year-old son.

The couple were separated and involved in a custody dispute; a Wake County judge had issued a domestic violence protection order against Mario Vellotti earlier that summer. Mario, 64 at the time, called 911 and confessed to shooting his wife after contacting an attorney’s office; a secretary from that office reported the incident to authorities. He surrendered to the Raleigh Police Department and was indicted on a first-degree murder charge by a Wake County grand jury.

Agata’s parents and brother traveled from Poland to the United States to seek custody of her son and to take her remains home, and a fund was set up to help with funeral and custody expenses. If anyone knew Agata or has information about the events that morning, please share what can help the family or the ongoing case.