Annasia Woods was a 23-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot in Troy, Alabama, on Friday, May 24, 2024. Officers found her deceased in the 400 block of Aster Circle, and the Troy Police Department opened an immediate homicide investigation with assistance from the Pike County Coroner’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office.

Investigators moved quickly and identified a person of interest within days. Over the following weekend, police arrested 20-year-old Kentaurie Daevon Fulpher of Troy and charged him with murder in connection with Woods’s death. Fulpher was booked into the Pike County Jail and ordered held without bond pending an Aniah’s Law hearing. As of late May 2024, the investigation remained ongoing and the case was proceeding through the legal system.

If anyone has information about what happened on Aster Circle that night or knew Annasia, please share what you know with Troy police.