Morgan Braxton, a 25-year-old Black female, was found shot and unresponsive inside her home on the 4800 block of North 8th Street in Philadelphia on the morning of April 12, 2021, after relatives raised concerns for her safety. Police located her in the dining room; medics pronounced her dead at the scene. Court records later placed the shooting on the morning of April 9, 2021, suggesting she likely had been dead for days before discovery.

Investigators connected the killing to Byron McDonald, the father of Morgan’s young child. Evidence described in the case linked a burgundy 2017 Chevrolet Malibu to the shooting at Morgan’s residence and to a subsequent shooting that killed Morgan’s mother, Tamara Aikens, outside her North Bancroft Street home. Ballistics tied casings and projectiles from both scenes to the same firearm, McDonald’s DNA was found in the Malibu, and cell phone records placed him near Morgan’s home on the morning of April 9 before traveling toward Aikens’s residence. An Amber Alert had been issued when Morgan and her child were unaccounted for; police later found the child safe at a hotel where McDonald and his mother, Teresa Winfrey, were taken into custody.

Prosecutors approved murder and related charges against McDonald on April 22, 2021. The case has been described as a domestic violence tragedy and left the child without both mother and grandmother. Does anyone have information about Morgan’s final days or about the burgundy 2017 Chevrolet Malibu?