Neighbors of the woman shot-to-death Sunday morning on Ellis Avenue in Jackson say she had been calmly walking with her boyfriend in the moments leading up to her murder.

They say 37-year-old Nicole Newsome was talking with her boyfriend, Maurice Clincy, 35, when they stopped and “huddled” and he embraced her in a hug.

The two are said to have continued walking and minutes later “about 11 [a.m.] he just started shooting her,” a young woman said who lives on Ellis and witnessed the incident, but wished to be unnamed.

“[He shot her] about seven or eight times.”

“Her body was laying in the street [after police arrived]” she added. “I went on to church with my kids and when I got back, her body was still laying out there two-hours later… Her body was not covered up and now her dead body is floating all over social media right now.”

Newsome was shot multiple times and died there on Ellis Avenue, near Willing Avenue, Jackson Police Sgt. Roderick Holmes said.

Clincy is either “her boyfriend or fiance and we do have him in custody,” Holmes added.

“We don’t know a whole lot yet… she looks to be in her mid-thirties,” he said, just after the coroner drove her body away from the scene.

The woman’s adult daughters arrived at the scene, grieving, telling police their mother was on her way to the store.

They said they got a call from someone they knew, telling them to go to Ellis Avenue and that their mother had been killed.

Police are working to learn additional details into a motive and other information of the case.