On the evening of June 15, 2018, deputies in Meridian, Mississippi, responded to a domestic disturbance on Brown Hooke Road and found 34-year-old Marsha Danielle Pace unresponsive with a gunshot wound to her head. She was taken to Rush Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her husband, 31-year-old Truitt Thomas Pace, was arrested after initially telling deputies he had punched her and later admitting to the 911 dispatcher that he had shot her.

Investigators uncovered a history of escalating domestic violence between the couple. The autopsy showed Marsha had blunt force injuries, including black eyes and abrasions, in addition to the fatal gunshot wound. A grand jury indicted Truitt Pace for first-degree murder in August 2019. At a trial that began in December 2021, the prosecution presented evidence that he shot Marsha in the back of the head from a distance of more than two to three feet. A jury convicted him of first-degree murder on December 16, 2021, and he received a life sentence.

Marsha is remembered as a loving mother and a Labor and Delivery employee at Rush Hospital. Her 9-year-old daughter was in the home during the incident and was not physically harmed. Does anyone have memories of Marsha or information about the case to share?