On the morning of December 2, 2016, 19-year-old Satha Teeter, also known as Samantha, was shot through a closed apartment door in Mason City, Iowa. She and her boyfriend had gone to the apartment of their neighbor, 60-year-old Larry Whaley, and when there was no answer Teeter attempted to use a key. Whaley fired a handgun three times through the door; one bullet struck Teeter in the head. She was taken to Mercy Medical Center–North Iowa, later transferred to St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, and died on December 4, 2016, of cardiac failure tied to her injuries.

Investigators found a revolver with spent and live rounds under a couch. The case description notes tension in the days before the shooting: Whaley had recently evicted two people with police help and believed one of them had a key and a gun, and another woman had been staying with him that night because she feared a former partner. Whaley said he fired to scare off an apparent threat and described the shooting as accidental; he was tried and convicted of second-degree murder and later sentenced.

If anyone knew Satha, her movements that night, or has information about what happened at that apartment, please share what is known.