LaPorsha Nashua Wallace was 14 when she and two family members were killed in their Saint Paul home on January 30, 2021. LaPorsha, a Black female student at Roseville Area Middle School known as Suga who dreamed of playing in the WNBA, was shot along with her 30-year-old mother, D’Zondria Deanternette Wallace, and her 11-year-old brother, Ja’Corbie Rashad Wallace.

A concerned relative had requested a welfare check that day; an officer spoke with D’Zondria about an hour before the shooting and was told everything was fine. Family members who arrived later found D’Zondria and LaPorsha dead. Ja’Corbie was found alive and identified the shooter as his mother’s boyfriend, Keith, before dying at a local hospital. The suspect was identified as 26-year-old TeKeith Svyone Jones and was taken into custody the next day by a SWAT team at an apartment complex on Wilson Avenue. Family members said D’Zondria had been trying to end an abusive relationship with Jones and feared for her life.

Anyone who knew LaPorsha or has information about that day is asked to come forward.