On the evening of April 4, 2022, 48-year-old Sheila Marie Hedrick was found fatally shot inside a home in the 200 block of Leland Drive in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Emergency services were called just after 10 p.m.; investigators described the death as the result of at least one gunshot wound and as a fatal altercation within the shared residence.

Warren County deputies arrested 62-year-old John Shoemaker several hours after the body was found. Shoemaker and Hedrick were living at the same address; the exact nature of their relationship was not made public in initial reports. Shoemaker was charged with first-degree murder and was held in the Claiborne County jail.

In June 2023 Shoemaker pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, and sentencing was scheduled for July 6, 2023. If anyone knew Sheila, lived near Leland Drive, or has information about the events of April 4, 2022, please share what you know.