Leann Renee Harris, a 34-year-old Black woman from Manassas, Virginia, was killed on April 2, 2024, in a double homicide. Harris, four months pregnant at the time, and 22-year-old Asia Payne were found by Prince William County police officers inside an apartment at the Westgate Apartments and Townhomes on Porter Ridge Lane with gunshot wounds to their upper bodies; Harris’s family later said she had been shot in the head.

Authorities identified Harris’s cousin, 36-year-old Edward James Jackson Bland of Manassas, as a suspect. Bland allegedly carjacked a 61-year-old man at gunpoint near the apartment and fled in the stolen vehicle; he was apprehended hours later in Shenandoah County after the car became inoperable. During his arrest, Bland reportedly confessed, saying it was a robbery and they had to die, and Shenandoah County notified Prince William County officers, who made the discovery about 5:10 a.m. after forcing entry.

Harris was remembered by loved ones as good-hearted and outgoing and was a mother to three children, aged 15, 14, and 4. Does anyone who knew Leann or was in the Westgate Apartments area around April 2, 2024, have information that could help clarify what happened?