Ermateen James was a 52-year-old African American woman found fatally shot in the head inside her Highview Street residence in Jackson, Tennessee, on March 5, 2019. Family remembered her as warm and loving; her sister Annie Merriweather reported seeing Ermateen’s son, Antonio Tywan James, arguing with her the night of the killing.Antonio Tywan James was arrested within a day of Ermateen’s death and charged in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors tried him for first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with evidence; a jury convicted him.