On Mother’s Day 2023 in Columbia, South Carolina, 48-year-old Barbara Jeffcoat Dinkins was fatally shot inside a home on Orr Street. Responding officers found her unresponsive and the Columbia Police Department opened an investigation into the shooting.

A suspect was arrested the next day. Elijah L. Lindsay, 44 and a Columbia resident, was taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Dinkins was remembered by coworkers and community members as an outgoing person and a longtime general manager at a local KFC who had served as a mother figure to employees.

What information can anyone who knew Barbara or was in the Orr Street area that day provide to help clarify what happened?