Shanay Michelle Hunt was found dead in a vacant house on Harriet Street in Evansville, Indiana. She was 45. A passerby noticed a foul odor and discovered her body on a mattress on July 14, 2023; the remains were in an advanced state of decomposition. An autopsy later determined Hunt had been shot in the head, and the bullet was a .45 GAP round, a caliber investigators described as relatively uncommon.

Investigators focused on Hunt’s 28-year-old son, Jaron Anthony Michael Wells, after learning he had bought a .45 caliber Glock and the same uncommon ammunition less than a month before his mother’s death and sold the gun afterward. Friends reported the last contact with Hunt was on July 8, after an argument with her son. A note in a notebook belonging to Wells mentioned doing something that would leave him without a living parent and devastate his sister; he did not attend Hunt’s funeral and unfriended her on Facebook after her death.

Are there details about Shanay’s life, routines, or relationships in Evansville that might help explain what happened that week?