Elegant Beayonka McGriff, 24, was found fatally shot in a garbage-filled alley in Chester, Pennsylvania, on the night of October 13, 2007. Her death was described as execution-style; she was later remembered in an obituary as the daughter of George Elisha Word and the late Kelly McGriff-Lolley and a mother of three, Kaveon, Kevin and Kellie.

Her killing was treated as part of a multi-jurisdictional homicide investigation that linked her death to the execution-style slaying of Jeanea S. Irvin, whose body was found with McGriff’s in Chester, and to the death of Maurice Goodman, whose body was discovered in the trunk of a rented Cadillac in South Philadelphia; Goodman died of asphyxiation and blunt force trauma. Reports note bloodstains and signs of arson at a Wilmington rowhome connected to Irvin, suggesting the violence may have begun before the bodies were found.

Publicly accessible reporting does not provide a confirmed named suspect, arrest, charge, trial, conviction or sentence in McGriff’s case. If anyone knew Elegant McGriff or has information about her death, please share what can help the investigation.