Margaret Harris, a 33-year-old Black woman, was found dead in her apartment at the Graystone Apartment complex in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Her body was discovered on Saturday, September 17, 2022; the coroner estimated she had been shot a few hours earlier, around 11 p.m. on Friday, September 16. An autopsy confirmed the cause of death was a gunshot wound.

Authorities arrested Lavonte Ellington in the nearby Tchula area and charged him with Harris’s murder. Some reports identified Ellington as Harris’s boyfriend. Motive and the full sequence of events leading to the shooting remain part of the ongoing investigation and prosecution.

If anyone has information about Margaret, her movements on September 16, 2022, or about what happened at the Graystone Apartment complex that night, please come forward.