Marissa Rene Williams was 27 when she was killed in a mass shooting at a house on Lester Street in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 2, 2008. The attack left six people dead; Williams, identified as the girlfriend of Cecil Dotson Jr., was shot five times. Two of Cecil Dotson’s young children were also among those killed, and three other children were critically wounded but survived.

Dotson and his brother Cecil Dotson Jr. escalated into lethal violence. Jessie Dotson, recently released from prison for a prior murder, allegedly shot his brother and then opened fire on others in the home. Surviving children later identified Jessie Dotson as the shooter; he was arrested five days after the killings and charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.

Jessie Dotson was convicted and received six death sentences plus long terms for the attempted murders of the surviving children, with the convictions and sentences upheld by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Does anyone have information about Marissa’s life or connections in Memphis that might help preserve her memory?