Support MMIW children & mother of Shandon Scott

Dear Community & Relatives,

MMIWhoismissing is requesting urgent & ongoing guardian support for our Clan Grandmother, Marjorie Scott (58). Marjorie, Diné (Navajo), is the mother of MMIW Shandon Scott, who was murdered 2021 in SLC, UT. Shandon is the mother of two beautiful surviving children: Prince Naveen (10 yrs) and Aaliyana (17 yrs).

Like many families of Missing & Murdered Mothers, Marjorie as an elder and grandmother is now raising her grandchildren in her daughter’s absence. It is not easy with the tremendous heart ache and trauma experienced.

For Native families, the decline of mental, physical, and financial health in the aftermath of MMIR violence is something we consistently experience and see as survivors and advocates. Community care, ceremony, therapy and ongoing financial support is critical to the wellness and healing of MMIR family survivors.

Unfortunately, Shandon’s children are not eligible for social security and Marjorie is currently suffering from an injury that has prevented her from working. On top of a very difficult couple of years for the Scott family, Marjorie and the kids are facing immediate eviction, food and housing insecurity.

This coming April, trial for Shandon Scott’s murderer has been set, where surviving family involvement is critical in the justice process. The Scott family deserves wellness, safety and security in the leading months as they prepare spiritually and mentally for that challenging time.

One of the most important things we can do in kinship is support the children of MMIW mothers, like Shandon Scott’s, so that they are protected from ongoing violence in their healing.

MMIW children deserve safety, housing, love and healing.

Alternatively, you can also support by sending funds directly to Marjorie:

Cash App: $MMIWshandon

Venmo: @Marjorie-Scott-24

News Report on Shandon Scott:

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — 31-year-old Terence Trent Vos was charged Monday with the murder of his girlfriend, Shandon Scott.

Charges filed by Salt Lake County prosecutors allege Vos shot Scott at an apartment complex in Millcreek at approximately 2:45 a.m. on May 1. Fifteen minutes later, her body was found inside a crashed Ford Fiesta on Interstate 80 in South Salt Lake.

A witness who stopped to help allegedly saw Vos "freaking out" in the driver's seat before he got out of the car and attempted to steal the witness' car, according to the indictment. When officers arrived and started CPR on Scott, Vos ran off and chucked an item — which investigators later determined to be a gun — off the overpass. He was chased down by police and arrested.

An autopsy revealed Scott had been shot 12 times, including in the heart and lungs.

Vos told the crash witness he and Scott had been shot at, according to the indictment. During a phone call from jail, he allegedly admitted that was a lie, saying he'd talked to police and "made some whole other s--- up."

"I don't know, we started fighting. I don't even know what it was over," he said on the phone call, according to prosecutors. Later in the conversation he allegedly admitted, "I just shot her."

Vos' parole agent issued a warrant for his arrest after he was informed of the Salt Lake City Police case. Vos wasn't located until May 1, when he was arrested for Scott's murder.

He was charged Monday with aggravated murder, two counts of felony discharge of a firearm, aggravated robbery, possession of a firearm as a restricted person, and obstruction of justice.

"Shandon will be remembered as a loving and caring person who loved her family, and children, dearly," Utah Homicide Survivors wrote on behalf of her family in a previous statement to 2News investigative reporter Wendy Halloran.

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“We ask that the public demand accountability and justice for the circumstances that caused Shandon's death. Failure to one is a failure to all. We ask for the full force of the law and justice to be used against the monster who took our loved one from us. We ask for accountability from those whose failure to act allowed him to continue to be in our community and cause great harm to us all."

– Family of Shandon Scott