Shantina Davenport-Mitchell, 49, was found dead in her Lamplighter Drive home in Saginaw Township on September 29, 2021 after she did not show up for work and police conducted a welfare check. Officers discovered her in a chair with multiple gunshot wounds and stab injuries; shell casings were reported on the floor and her small dog was found running around the scene.

Investigators quickly focused on her husband, Lonnie Mitchell Jr., who had been described by family as struggling with his mental health and on medication; days before the killing Davenport-Mitchell told Mitchell’s daughter, Dasia Parker, she did not want him back in the house. Mitchell was later located in Flint and taken into custody after an interview with detectives.

What details about the hours before September 29 could help clarify what happened that day?