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Kelli Johnston was 23 when she was found with a gunshot wound to the head in her Sharon, Pennsylvania apartment on August 8, 2020. She was a mother of two — a 1-1/2-year-old son and a 4-month-old daughter — who were in the apartment at the time. Johnston was taken first to Sharon Regional Hospital and then airlifted to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, where she later died.

Police identified Johnston’s long-time boyfriend and the children’s father, 20-year-old Ezra Daye, as a suspect; he was arrested by Sharon police the same morning and initially charged with criminal homicide, persons not to possess firearms, and two counts of aggravated assault. Daye later pleaded no contest to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 to 35 years in state prison after a plea agreement. The Mercer County District Attorney described the case as another tragic example of domestic violence in the county.

If anyone knew Kelli or saw her in Sharon before August 8, 2020, can you share information that might help document her last days?