Ebony C. Smith was 25 when she was killed inside an apartment at the Georgetown Manor complex in New Castle, Delaware. The incident began the evening of Sunday, July 17, 2016, when police went to the complex on Christiana Road for a welfare check and, after hearing a gunshot inside, evacuated nearby units and set up a prolonged barricade and negotiation effort.

Negotiators spent hours speaking by phone with a man inside the apartment. When officers entered the residence on July 18 they found Smith and 27-year-old Braheem Queen dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Investigators determined the two had been in a relationship and characterized the scene as a domestic-violence murder-suicide, concluding Queen shot Smith and then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Because Queen died at the scene, there was no arrest or criminal trial.

Anyone who knew Ebony, Braheem, or the Georgetown Manor community and has information about the events that night is asked to come forward.