Jessie W. Taylor, 70, a Black woman, was shot in the lobby of McMillon Estates, an independent-living building in Ensley, on June 2, 2014. Officers and medics responded and she was taken to University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, where she died the next morning.

Police identified another resident, Willie Bell, a man who used a wheelchair, as the person who shot Taylor. Bell reportedly withdrew into his apartment and barricaded himself inside; before officers could take him into custody he died by suicide. Reports indicated Taylor and Bell may have once been in a romantic relationship that had ended and that the shooting might be connected to that rupture, though police did not publicly confirm a motive.

Investigators also examined how a firearm entered the senior living facility and what safeguards were in place. Does anyone who lived at McMillon Estates in 2014 or who knew either Taylor or Bell have information about their relationship or how a gun could have been brought into the building?