Lisa Hill, a 53-year-old White woman, was found with a gunshot wound in the front yard of a home in the 1100 block of SW Lincoln Street in Topeka, Kansas, on the evening of May 7, 2020. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene.

Investigators focused on a person of interest and located him at a North Topeka residence. After a several-hour standoff with the Topeka Police Department’s Response Team and crisis negotiators, 47-year-old Charles Melvin Wilson II was taken into custody in the early morning hours of May 8. He was charged with first-degree murder in Hill’s death and with criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of methamphetamine; bond was set at one million dollars. Evidence gathered at the scene and during the investigation was cited as pointing to him as the perpetrator.

This killing came 13 days after Lisa Hill’s son, 26-year-old Joseph Ross Hill, was shot and killed in Topeka on April 24, 2020; Wilson was also identified as a person of interest in that separate shooting. Does anyone have information about the two shootings or knew Lisa or Joseph Hill?