FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A woman will spend 13 to 17 years in prison after shooting and killing a mother in Winston-Salem in 2020, according to the office of Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill.
Terika Shannail Sims, 43, pled guilty on Friday in Forsyth County Superior Court to second-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Early in the morning on May 9, 2020, officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department responded to reports of a shooting at a home in the 900 block of Woodcote Drive.
The victims, Malika Charmane Davis and Tyrone Lamont Davis, were both shot and taken by EMS to the hospital. Malika was shot once in the abdomen and died. She was 32 years old and the mother of two children.
Her brother Tyrone was shot once and discharged from the hospital.
Officers learned that a party was happening at Tyrone’s home on May 9. Investigators say that before the shooting, the Sims got in an argument over the phone with a relative of Malika and Tyrone.