A San Antonio mother has spent five years raising her grandchildren while searching for the people who gunned down her adult children during a Thanksgiving dinner gathering. The triple murder case has gone cold, and the family is still waiting for police to make an arrest.
Eashonne Wolford lost three of her children, 28-year-old Charles Wolford, 25-year-old Eugene Hodge Jr., and 32-year-old Shanobea Wolford, after a drive-by shooting tore through her East Side home on the 4000 block of Sunrise Creek Drive on Thanksgiving night, November 25, 2021. Charles and Eugene were killed at the scene, while Shanobea was paralyzed and died from complications seven months later, on June 1, 2022, turning what police initially treated as a double homicide into a cold triple murder investigation, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
As KSAT reports in its coverage of the case, Wolford has now raised her grandchildren for five years while continuing to search for her adult children's killers, with the case remaining unsolved even now. The station's report frames the story as one of a mother forced into a second act of parenting under the weight of unanswered questions about who opened fire on her family and why.
A Holiday Gathering Turned Deadly
Wolford has described being inside the house with nine adults and twelve children, drawing names for Christmas pajama sets, when a passenger in a white four-door vehicle opened fire on the residence around 8 p.m. that Thanksgiving night, according to KENS 5. She was struck in the leg as she shielded her grandchildren, while family members tried to barricade the front door and pulled children into a hallway to keep them safe.
The three siblings killed left behind six children total, all of whom have been raised by Wolford as she continues pressing police for answers, per KSAT. Investigators have released surveillance footage showing a white four-door sedan, identified as a white Dodge Charger, speeding away from the scene, with witnesses describing a male shooter with a light complexion firing from inside the vehicle.
Anniversary Appeals and a Standing Reward
Police have re-released that surveillance video on past anniversaries in an effort to identify the suspect vehicle and driver, a strategy law enforcement leans on because holiday anniversaries often prompt witnesses to come forward. Crime Stoppers of San Antonio maintains an active reward of up to $5,000 for anonymous tips submitted through 210-224-STOP or the P3 Tips mobile app that lead to a felony arrest in the case, according to the Express-News.
Key questions remain unresolved: investigators have not identified a motive for why the Sunrise Creek Drive residence was targeted, nor have they identified who was inside the white Dodge Charger caught on camera. The San Antonio Police Department maintains an active Cold Case Unit tasked with re-examining evidence across more than 2,000 unresolved homicide and missing persons cases citywide, according to Uncovered. In April, the city and SAPD launched a forensic genetic genealogy initiative backed by more than $1 million in federal grant funding to re-analyze cold case DNA evidence once traditional leads run dry, as reported by the San Antonio Report.
A Family Marked by Repeated Tragedy
This is not the first time Wolford has buried a child to violence. A decade before the Thanksgiving shooting, she lost her 18-year-old son Antwan Wolford, who was fatally stabbed in San Antonio in November 2009; his former girlfriend was convicted of manslaughter in 2012, according to MySA.
Then in June 2025, Wolford endured further heartbreak when 28-year-old Karina Ramirez, the long-term partner of her son Sedrick Wolford, was killed in a wrong-way drunk-driving collision while protecting two of Wolford's granddaughters, who survived with injuries. Hoodline previously reported that a suspect was charged with intoxication manslaughter following that crash on Harry Wurzbach Road.
Five years on, the Thanksgiving triple murder remains unsolved, and Wolford continues raising the six children left behind by her three slain adult children. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of San Antonio anonymously in hopes that fresh tips, even years later, might finally bring the case to a close.
