On July 12, 2017, 65-year-old Bonnie Reeves Foshee was one of three family members murdered at a home in the Peachtree Crossings manufactured housing community in Gardendale, Alabama. Foshee, her husband of 45 years Don Austin Foshee, 69, and her sister Dana Reeves Lever, 50, were preparing for a trip to Chicago when all three were ambushed and shot.

Court records identified Dana’s ex-husband, 52-year-old Kenneth Dion Lever, as the sole suspect. Dana had obtained a protective order against him the previous December alleging harassment and stalking; the order named Dana and their juvenile daughter. Kenneth Lever was also facing unrelated child sexual abuse charges in York County, Pennsylvania. A manhunt followed and law enforcement later reported Kenneth Lever was found dead in Escambia County, Florida, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Bonnie was remembered as the eldest of four sisters who often took a caring, protective role in the family. The community lost three relatives in a single, violent event that devastated their close-knit family.

Did anyone who knew Bonnie or the family have information about tensions leading up to July 12, 2017?