Lakeyel Hurd, 26, was killed in Memphis on December 29, 2015, after her ex-boyfriend, Antonio R. Davis, forced his way into an apartment in the Hickory Ridge area by shooting through a sliding glass door. The first bullet struck Hurd in the abdomen; when a friend moved to help, Davis threatened the friend and then shot Hurd several more times, including three times to the head, killing her.

The friend fled to a bedroom with her four children; Davis followed, pointed a firearm at her and at a one-year-old child she held, and stole the friend’s cell phone before leaving. Davis fled the Memphis area and was located about two weeks later by U.S. Marshals at a motel in Goodlettsville, north of Nashville, and extradited back to Memphis.

In December 2021 a Shelby County jury found Antonio R. Davis, then 33, guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, and aggravated burglary; he received an automatic life sentence for Hurd’s murder. Does anyone have information about Lakeyel’s life in Memphis or knew her circle that could shed light on what led to that night?