Nikita Shontay Douglas, 38, was shot and killed at her grandmother’s home in Hemingway, South Carolina, on February 13, 2025. Born June 17, 1986, in New Haven, Connecticut, she had lived in South Carolina and was remembered by family and friends for her work as an office manager at a law firm, her love of event planning, travel, dancing and cooking, and as a devoted mother to two children.

Shots were fired into the residence; two other people in the home survived. Law enforcement opened an investigation and later arrested a suspect identified as Williams as authorities continued to piece together the circumstances of the shooting. Family members including her parents and siblings survived her and are mourning her loss.

If anyone knew Nikita, was at the residence that day, or has information about the shooting or Williams, please come forward.