Necole Craig-Jones was 41 when she was shot in the head and killed in her Avondale home in Cincinnati on May 30, 2016. The man she lived with, Thomas Walker, said the shooting was accidental, claiming he woke to find her holding a handgun and that it went off during a struggle. Prosecutors presented a different account, saying Walker shot her in a fit of rage and then kept her body for nearly three days before contacting police.

Prosecutors described disturbing postmortem actions: duct-taping his wrist to hers, pulling her shirt up over her face, and writing a message on the wall blaming her family. The trial included evidence of prior domestic violence, including violent text messages and testimony from Jones’s family that Walker had previously knocked out one of her teeth and caused unexplained bruises. Walker was convicted of murder, abuse of a corpse, and related charges and was sentenced to 25 years to life.

Anyone who knew Necole, their relationship, or the Avondale neighborhood around May 2016 with information that could add context is encouraged to share what they know.