Khalyiah Bell, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in her South Bend, Indiana, apartment at the Beacon Heights complex on Curtiss Drive on November 3, 2023. Police responded just after 8:30 a.m.; she was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy confirmed death by gunshot wounds. Family and community members held a vigil in her memory in the days that followed.

Investigators focused on 22-year-old Juwan Dockery after witnesses said he had been staying with Bell, the couple argued overnight, and she had recently tried to end the relationship because of abuse. A neighbor reported hearing a gunshot outside and then another from inside; a spent shell casing was found near the front door. Security footage showed Dockery leaving the complex in Bell’s car, and a live audio recording Bell started captured an argument in which a man identified as Juwan demanded to know where his gun was, threatened to shoot her, and a sound consistent with a gunshot is heard.

Dockery was arrested November 4, 2023, and charged with murder and a firearm enhancement; he was held without bond. The case later moved through the court system and a plea was entered in January 2026. Did anyone in the community know Khalyiah or have information about the days before November 3, 2023?