Six months after her daughter was shot to death on campus at Columbus State University, a grieving mother is still searching for answers. Gisele Pierce was killed Aug. 18, 2023 outside the Lenior Hall annex on the CSU main campus. The Muscogee County Coroner’s Office says it was an apparent murder-suicide. Another CSU student, 25-year-old Nathaniel Janik was found dead on the scene of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. “She had such a bright future, such a bright future, such a good person. She never did anything wrong.” Those are the words of a grief-stricken mother searching for answers in her daughter’s death. And the bulk of the information has been slow to come.