On the evening of January 2, 2025, 30-year-old Starmichael Latrice Star Tucker was killed in Pensacola, Florida, in what authorities described as a domestic incident. Tucker, a Senior Airman with the 919th Special Operations Medical Squadron, was found in an apartment-complex parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds; investigators later reported she had been shot at least seven times and then run over twice by a vehicle.

Authorities identified Tucker’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Charles Carson-Dowdy, as the suspect. Law enforcement says Carson-Dowdy fled in Tucker’s Jeep Cherokee and was tracked west on Interstate 10; a flat tire led to his capture in Spanish Fort, Alabama, near Ralph & Kacoo’s restaurant on the Causeway after he had called roadside assistance.

Family members described Tucker as kind-hearted and deeply missed. Anyone with information about Tucker, her movements that evening, or the incident is asked to come forward.