Shaterica Anderson was 28 and pregnant when she was killed in her Spring, Texas home on November 22, 2021. She was found shot multiple times in the early hours while her five children were asleep; investigators later said she had been shot four times in the face and head. The suspect was identified as her longtime boyfriend, Johnny Ray Landry, then 51. Landry told authorities the shooting was accidental during a struggle over a handgun, but the nature and location of Anderson’s wounds led to murder charges.

Landry fled after the shooting and was on the run for several weeks before turning himself in; he was held on $350,000 bond. Anderson had a documented history of abuse: in March 2021 she was sexually assaulted by a uniformed Harris County deputy in an incident witnessed by her daughter; that deputy was later fired and the criminal case was under review at the time of Anderson’s death. Her killing was cited amid concerns about rising intimate partner homicides in Harris County and the role of prior abuse and easy access to weapons in fatal outcomes.

Did anyone in the Spring area have contact with Shaterica or information about the events that night?