On the night of January 31, 2016, 25-year-old Lakita Ranice Hicks and her partner, 24-year-old George Dillard, were shot dead in their home on East 13th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Their five-year-old son called 911 to report that his mother and father had been shot.

The case produced no suspects in the early years and went cold, leaving both families without answers. In March 2022 the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit reopened the investigation and, based on new information, identified and charged James Joshua Martin, then 28, with two counts of first-degree felony murder in connection with the deaths of Hicks and Dillard.

Who in the Chattanooga area from 2016 might have known details about Lakita’s or George’s lives that could help clarify what happened that night?