On the morning of September 14, 2009, 16-year-old Tiffany Rena Wright, eight months pregnant, was shot in the head while waiting for the school bus on Mallard Creek Road in north Charlotte shortly before 6 a.m. Officers found her in the street; she was taken to CMC Main and died a short time after arrival. Doctors delivered her newborn daughter, Aaliyah Wright, who survived six days and died on September 20, 2009.

Investigators considered Tiffany’s adoptive brother, Royce Anthony Mitchell, a person of interest early on; he was at one point charged with statutory rape but those charges were dropped after DNA showed he was not the baby’s father. The case remained unsolved for nearly a decade until a community tip led police to arrest the now 45-year-old Mitchell on September 7, 2018. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Tiffany and Aaliyah.

If anyone knew Tiffany or Aaliyah, or remembers events around Mallard Creek Road in September 2009, please come forward with information.