Shirley M. Onley, a 70-year-old Black woman, was found dead after a residential trailer fire on Occohannock Neck Road in Exmore, Virginia, in the early morning hours of January 27, 2016. First responders discovered her home completely destroyed by flames and her body in the charred remains. An autopsy at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Norfolk found she had been shot; two bullets were recovered, one in her neck and another in her skull.

Investigators also recovered a cartridge case amid the fire debris. The death was ruled a homicide and the Virginia State Police opened a criminal investigation, but no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been made. The case is treated as a cold, unsolved homicide.

Anyone with information about Shirley Onley’s death is asked to come forward.