On August 14, 2023, 41-year-old Delila Nicole Westmoreland was found dead in her Bellevue Mill apartment in Hillsborough, North Carolina after a welfare check at about 7:45 p.m. Police discovered multiple gunshot wounds; an autopsy later determined she had been shot 12 times. Bullets also penetrated a neighboring, unoccupied apartment but no one else was injured.

Delila’s 2-year-old child was initially missing from the scene but was later located unharmed and placed with family. Investigators identified Delila’s 19-year-old daughter, Jaydah Westmoreland, as the primary suspect. Authorities said Jaydah had recently bought a .22 caliber rifle and had made prior verbal threats against her mother; she was found in Durham with the toddler, arrested without incident and charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping. Jaydah is being held without bond at the Orange County Jail.

Delila was remembered as a nurse at the Durham VA Medical Center, a wife and mother; a GoFundMe was set up to help her surviving family, including her husband and three young sons. The investigation remains active and motive has not been released. Does anyone have information about Delila, her family, or the neighborhood that could help investigators?