Sheronda Dyer, a 41-year-old Black mother of three, was found dead in her south Phoenix home on the morning of September 3, 2021. A family member discovered her just before 11 a.m. at the residence near 59th Avenue and Broadway Road; police said she had obvious signs of trauma and investigators later determined she had been fatally shot.

Earlier that morning Dyer had dropped her son at school. Her boyfriend, 35-year-old Eddie Lauderdale, who was the father of their 3-year-old daughter, had been at the house. A neighbor reported seeing a man matching Lauderdale’s description in the garage and hearing gunshots around the time Dyer returned. Shell casings and Dyer’s cell phone were found discarded near a bus stop at 43rd Avenue and Van Buren Street.

Lauderdale was located the next day and turned himself in at a home near 19th and Glendale avenues. He told police he and Dyer had fought, that she walked to her car allegedly to get a gun, and that he retrieved a gun from the bedroom and fired at her nine times. He said he did not check on her or call for help and that he discarded both firearms and Dyer’s phone; officers later recovered the items.

Does anyone have information about Sheronda’s life in south Phoenix or knew her family that could help fill in what happened that morning?