On July 10, 2025, officers responding to a welfare check at a home on Samantha Court in Auburn, Alabama, forced entry and found 13-year-old Black/African American female Zynniya Wright and her 34-year-old mother, Tyeisha Williams, both pronounced dead at the scene around 2:30 p.m. A three-year-old boy, Jibreel Harun, was missing from the residence, prompting a statewide Amber Alert and a multiagency search that included the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Authorities identified 41-year-old Aaron Dontay Williams, husband of Tyeisha and stepfather to Zynniya, as a suspect and said he had fled with the boy, possibly in a gray Honda Accord. On July 11, law enforcement located and arrested Williams in Giles County, Tennessee, at about 7:15 a.m.; the child was found with him and was unharmed.

Zynniya’s biological father, Lance Wright, said he had previously raised concerns about her safety and asked the Lee County court system and the Department of Human Resources to remove her from the home, citing Williams’ prior criminal history, including an attempted murder charge. Does anyone have information about Zynniya’s life in Auburn or the family’s prior contacts with local authorities that could help explain how these warnings were handled?