On May 24, 2024, a shooting in the 100 block of Bunker Hill Lane in Statesville, North Carolina, left three people dead. Officers arriving after a 7:19 a.m. call found 26-year-old Simone Octavia Williams on a neighbor’s front porch with a fatal gunshot wound. Witnesses identified 39-year-old Nicholas Goolsby as the shooter, and he retreated to the family residence.

Police established a perimeter and, with assistance from the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, used a search robot to enter the home. A 10-month-old child was found unharmed on the first floor and later placed with family. Officers then located Nicholas and his 36-year-old wife, Brandi Delia Goolsby, deceased in an upstairs bedroom; evidence showed Nicholas had fatally shot Brandi and was also dead.

Simone Williams had been living with the Goolsbys; she was a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with degrees from Western Carolina University and Wake Forest University and had worked for the Iredell Health System. No additional suspects were identified and the area was secured. Does anyone have information about Simone, the Goolsbys, or the events that morning?