India Zippora Collins was 26 when she was found dead from a gunshot wound on March 26, 2021, inside a home on Hatchett Avenue in Tarrant, Alabama. Investigators described the scene as an apparent murder-suicide; two people at the residence died of gunshot wounds, and the other person was identified as DeAngelo Carter. Police believe Collins was shot in the head and that Carter later turned the gun on himself.

Family members’ concern began the response after Carter called his mother around midnight the night before and said he “messed up,” prompting officers to check the house. Initial contact attempts did not provide legal grounds for entry; by the time the home was entered, both adults were already dead. Two young daughters, reported to be six and two years old, were believed to have been present and to have witnessed parts of the incident and were thought to have been moved into a bedroom before the shooting ended.

What remains are the investigators’ reconstruction of a fatal shooting followed by suicide and the fact that two children survived a night in the same home where their mother died. Does anyone have information about the family or those children that could fill gaps in the timeline?