Shanitia Mikell Eure-Lewis, 35, of Newport News, Virginia, vanished after attending church on the morning of Sunday, July 17, 2022. She told fellow parishioners at the 8 a.m. service she would go home briefly and return for the 10:15 a.m. service, but was never seen alive by family. Concern grew when her family could not reach her and described that as highly uncharacteristic.

Investigators quickly focused on Shanitia’s husband, Adrian Salvatore Lewis. Witnesses said they saw Shanitia leave the residence with him at about 9:40 a.m. on July 17. On July 18, police located the couple’s vehicle and found evidence that converted the case from a missing person investigation to a homicide probe. Lewis was arrested July 18 as he attempted to board a flight; a search of his luggage turned up Shanitia’s passport and credit cards. Personal items belonging to Shanitia, including her purse and sandals, and a shovel were later recovered in a dumpster, and blood and a bullet casing were found in Adrian Lewis’s truck. Reports say Shanitia had told her husband on July 4 that she wanted a divorce and had moved firearms and her children to her sister’s home for safekeeping in the days before she disappeared.

Does anyone have information about Shanitia’s last movements or about the items recovered from the scene?