Amanda LeShaun Bates, 34, was found dead in her vehicle at her Richmond Road residence in Keswick, Virginia, on the evening of March 24, 2018. Albemarle County Police determined she had been shot multiple times in the head while sitting in the driver’s seat; her death was ruled a homicide and noted as the county’s first of that year.

Investigators focused on her estranged fiancé, 34-year-old Cardian Omar Eubanks. Police said Bates had ended the relationship about a month earlier and Eubanks had moved out; he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and was held without bond.

At trial, friends and family described Bates as a creative, compassionate mother and daughter. The prosecution presented evidence tying the killing to domestic violence after the breakup. The jury found Cardian Omar Eubanks guilty of first-degree murder and recommended life in prison for the murder charge with an additional eight years for the firearms convictions.

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