Janet Harrison, an 83-year-old White/Caucasian woman, was found dead from fatal gunshot wounds in her Johnston, Rhode Island home on the morning of May 24, 2023. The violence began with a dispute involving her family and a neighbor and left two households devastated.

Police identified her 52-year-old son, James Harrison, who lived with her, as the suspect. Responding officers discovered that Thomas May, a neighbor, had also been fatally shot and his 15-year-old daughter seriously injured. After the shootings James Harrison fled in a vehicle, was pursued into Cranston, crashed, and was shot and killed by police after exiting his car armed with a handgun. The state attorney general’s office later found the use of deadly force by officers to be legally justified. No arrests were made because the suspect died at the scene of the pursuit.

If anyone knew Janet, the neighborhood dynamics that morning, or has information about the dispute that preceded these killings, please share what you know.