Jessie Swain was 72 when she was struck in a late-night drive-by shooting at her South Ardmore Avenue home in Dayton, Ohio, on January 2, 2011. Attackers fired 23 bullets into the two-story house while Swain was in bed; she suffered multiple gunshot wounds, was taken to hospital, and died early the next morning on her 73rd birthday. The Dayton Police Department classified the death as a homicide and the case remains unsolved.

Investigators have suggested the shooting may have been retaliatory and linked to a related incident on New Year’s Day, when 19-year-old Jamycol Harris was shot outside an address connected to Jessie’s grandson, Stephon Swain. Jessie’s son Jeffrey Swain was in the house during the shooting; the family has publicly expressed grief and a desire for those responsible to be caught.

Anyone with information that could help solve this retaliatory-style drive-by is asked to come forward.