Anteeatta ’Tee’ Archie Swims, 36, a Black educator from Oxford, Mississippi, died June 9, 2021 after a violent altercation in her Spring Lake Cove home. She was found deceased there on June 11, 2021, her body covered with a blanket. Family say she missed her routine morning call the day she was shot three times while driving to work in Batesville, and they received unusually misspelled texts from her phone after her death.

Her husband, 41-year-old David Lee Swims Jr., who uses a wheelchair, was arrested and charged with her murder. He claimed the shooting was accidental and occurred when a gun by the bed discharged during a struggle; prosecutors said the scene had been tampered with to conceal the crime. He was initially released on a $100,000 bond, a decision that deeply upset the family.

In September 2023 a jury found David Lee Swims Jr. guilty of second-degree murder; he was taken into custody to await sentencing the following month. Anteeatta’s family described her as a loving sister and committed teacher who had aspired to be Mississippi’s superintendent of education. Does anyone have information about Anteeatta’s life or the days leading up to June 9, 2021?