Johnetta Wrisborne Duncan, a 33-year-old African American woman, was shot and killed on June 20, 2005, in Leland, North Carolina. The shooting happened outside the Duncan mobile home on Friendly Lane when she had gone to pick up her 3-year-old son. Johnetta was separated from her husband, David Duncan, and the gunfire came from her 64-year-old father-in-law, Thomas H. Duncan.

Thomas H. Duncan was charged with first-degree murder and held in the Brunswick County jail without bail. Records note he had two prior charges in the 1990s for assault by pointing a gun; both were misdemeanors later dismissed after the complainants withdrew their cases. The death was described as a form of family violence because the shooter was a relative rather than an intimate partner.

An autopsy was performed to document Johnetta’s fatal injuries. Her three young children were left without their mother. Does anyone have information about Johnetta, her family, or the events that led up to that day?