On June 24, 2024, a shooting at an apartment complex on Livingston Street in Asheville, North Carolina, left 40-year-old Ashley Ryan Waddell dead. Police arrived around 8 p.m. and found four people injured: three with gunshot wounds and one with blunt force trauma. Ashley Waddell died at the scene.

Authorities arrested 23-year-old Isaiah Rayshawn Waddell and charged him with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly shooting a 16-year-old juvenile who had, according to family accounts, fatally shot his mother moments earlier. Family members say Ashley was trying to defend her boyfriend during an altercation when she was shot, and that her son Isaiah returned fire in defense of his mother. Isaiah was booked into the Buncombe County Detention Facility with no bond.

The Asheville Police Department is still investigating and has asked anyone with information to come forward. Does anyone in the Asheville area have information that could help investigators or knew Ashley and the family?