On July 26, 2016, 20-year-old Lyric Bryce Work was shot while working as a leasing agent at Grand Oaks Apartments in Grand Blanc, Michigan. She was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint and placed on life support; she was pregnant at the time and her baby was delivered by cesarean section seven weeks early. Work died of her injuries three days later on July 29, 2016.

The same shooting killed 45-year-old co-worker Tamara Johnson at the scene. Investigators identified 54-year-old apartment resident Jacquelyne Tyson as the shooter and considered that Tyson may have believed people were entering her apartment without permission. Tyson was arrested and charged in Genesee County Circuit Court with the premeditated murder of both women.

A non-jury trial resulted in Tyson being found guilty but mentally ill of first-degree murder in Work’s death and guilty of second-degree murder in Johnson’s death; the court found Tyson crossed a common area after shooting Johnson before shooting Work. Tyson received life in prison without the possibility of parole. If anyone knew Lyric Work or has information about the case, please share what you know.