On the morning of August 26, 2023, 19-year-old Khia Shields was fatally wounded inside her mother’s home on Washington Street in Wrens, Georgia. A sophomore at Georgia Southern University, Shields was asleep on the living room sofa when a bullet came through a wall and struck her in the chest. She stumbled to her mother’s bedroom, called for her mother, and was taken to Augusta University Medical Center, where she died shortly afterward.

Investigators from the Wrens Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation treated the shooting as a possible drive-by. A black Chevrolet Impala seen in the area around the time of the shooting became a focus of the inquiry. Shields had recently celebrated her birthday; her mother, Shereka Pitts, described her as an honors graduate and the family’s only child.

What information about the black Chevrolet Impala or other leads might help move this case forward?