On the morning of August 15, 2026, 54-year-old Khisa Hhalille Williams was shot at the Shell station at 4945 Raleigh Road Parkway in Wilson, North Carolina. Officers responding to reports of a domestic incident found Williams with a gunshot wound; she was transported by EMS but died before reaching the hospital.

Police identified 54-year-old Devone Sharnell Best, described as someone Williams had been in a previous dating relationship with, as the suspect. Best fled the scene and was located and arrested in Raleigh on August 18, 2026, by the Wilson Police Department working with the U.S. Marshals Task Force. He was charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and booked into the Wilson County Detention Center with no bond; his first court appearance was scheduled for August 21, 2026. Court records show a 2006 felony conviction for attempted assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, which the charge alleges made Best legally prohibited from possessing a firearm.

Williams’s death has drawn attention to domestic violence in the community. If anyone saw the shooting at the Raleigh Road Parkway Shell station or has information about the events leading up to that morning, please share what is known.