Jessica Williams was 27 and a mother of three when she was found dead in her Saint Paul home on July 19, 2019. Concern began that evening after she failed to pick up her infant from daycare; an emergency contact entering the Charles Avenue house was led inside by Jessica’s two older children and found blood in the kitchen. Officers followed a trail to the basement and discovered Jessica at the bottom of the stairs with a shirt placed over her face.

An autopsy found she died of blood loss from five to six gunshot wounds to the scalp, neck and upper body. Investigators recovered spent .22 caliber shell casings in the living room and kitchen; the two children in the house were physically unharmed. Suspicion centered on 28-year-old ex-boyfriend Shakee Shabazz Miller-Brantley, who was arrested the next day and confessed, saying an argument over a requested return of a gun led him to shoot her as she backed away and that he later moved her body to the basement and covered her face.

Miller-Brantley was charged with second-degree murder; the defense raised self-defense and mental illness issues during pretrial proceedings. Does anyone with information about Jessica, her movements that day, or the neighborhood remember anything that could help clarify what happened?