On the evening of December 31, 2019, 58-year-old Dana Wells was found dead in her Omaha apartment. Authorities later determined she died from a gunshot wound, and her death was ruled a homicide.

Police focused on Wells’s boyfriend after responding to a welfare check and finding her body. Officers reported hearing a woman cry out No, Terry followed by gunfire, then a man emerged armed. Officers shot and killed the man, who was identified as Terry Hudson, also known as Marlon Coates. The Douglas County Attorney’s Office later convened a grand jury, which concluded officers were justified in using force and that Hudson/Coates was the likely perpetrator, effectively treating the incident as a murder-suicide. No other suspects were sought.

Anyone who knew Dana Wells or has information about her final hours is asked to come forward.