Angela Bates was a 47-year-old Black woman described as a beloved wife, sister, and mother who had previously lost three children to gun violence and spoken publicly as a survivor. State Representative Darnell T. Brewer had met her when she testified during National Gun Violence Survivors Week and later mourned her as a powerful voice against that violence.

On the evening of April 26, 2024, South Euclid police responded to a report of an unresponsive woman at Bates’s home on Grosvenor Road. Officers found her with multiple gunshot wounds; she was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations was called to process the scene.

Authorities arrested a suspect at the house who was identified as Bates’s 19-year-old daughter, Nia Patterson, and charged her with murder. The case was forwarded from South Euclid Municipal Court to a Cuyahoga County grand jury.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Angela Bates, please come forward to investigators.