Qualeisha Barnes, 36, was shot and killed in Atlanta in the early morning of April 8, 2026. Barnes, who was 14 weeks pregnant, was found inside her vehicle on Springside Place with multiple gunshot wounds; emergency personnel arrived about 1:23 a.m. and pronounced her dead. The Atlanta Police Department’s preliminary investigation indicates shots were fired into the vehicle from outside before whoever fired them fled the scene.

Barnes was originally from Detroit and had lived in the Atlanta area for nearly a decade. Known in the music community by the stage name Siditty, she was also a nursing student at South College in Chamblee, two semesters short of a bachelor’s degree and recently on the dean’s list. Family members said she was excited about becoming a mother and had been planning to fly to Detroit the morning she was killed. The Homicide Unit is treating this as a double homicide because of the loss of Barnes and her unborn child; no suspects or arrests have been announced. Investigators have been canvassing for surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses.

Did anyone in the Springside Place area that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?