Zatae Paulette Wilson was 35 and a mother of three when she was shot inside a home on Woodduck Drive in the Gadsden Acres neighborhood of Summerville on the night of September 4, 2023. Born December 3, 1987, in Omaha, Nebraska, she lived in Georgetown, South Carolina, worked as a compensation analyst for MIL Corporation, and had earned an associate degree from Horry-Georgetown Technical College. Family remembered her as caring, strong-willed, independent, and devoted to her children.

Summerville dispatchers received a 911 call from a man saying his girlfriend had been shot; the caller then became uncooperative and hung up. Officers arrived about 1:40 a.m. on September 5 and later stopped a vehicle after a brief pursuit, arresting 37-year-old Michael Todd Chinnis Jr. Police reported finding a Glock .40-caliber handgun on him with a long black hair on the barrel. The Dorchester County Coroner pronounced Wilson dead in the early hours of September 5. Chinnis was booked on murder and multiple weapons-related charges and held without bond on the murder count.

Her family set up an online fundraiser for her children and described the shooting as a tragic, senseless act. If anyone knew Zatae, her routines, or has information about what happened that night, please come forward to help her children and family seek answers.