Mary McNulty, 82, was shot and killed inside her home on Narrow Street in the South Norfolk neighborhood of Chesapeake, Virginia, on the morning of July 17, 2021. The female victim died of multiple gunshot wounds in what family members described as a domestic dispute that turned deadly.

The primary suspect is her 20-year-old adopted son, Traivon McNulty. Mary and her husband had adopted him when he was two weeks old. Family members say an argument over his overdue rent payment of $200 a month escalated; Traivon allegedly made threats, was taken by his father to the bank, and when the father returned to cut the grass, gunshots were heard. Traivon then fled in the family’s silver Chrysler Town & Country minivan.

A manhunt followed and family members helped track his credit card activity. Two days after the shooting, Traivon McNulty was stopped during a traffic stop in Delaware and taken into custody without incident. He was charged with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of murder, robbery, and shooting in an occupied dwelling.

If anyone knew Mary or has information about the events that morning, please come forward.