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Ja’Quoia Collins

Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast

October 9, 2026

24-year-old Ja’Quoia Collins and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Quartez McShane, got into a heated argument that completely spiraled out of control outside her apartment. Things got ugly and Ja’Quoia stabbed Quartez in the chest, leaving him dead in the parking lot.

Speakers MaRah Williams, Taz

TopicsTrue Crime

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MaRah Williams (1:20)

What's going on, everybody? I'm Heaven.

Taz (1:22)

And I'm Hale.

MaRah Williams (1:23)

And welcome to Spooky Time on Sistas Who Kill.

You love him, you love him not. Either way, you're going to see an angel or a devil show up at your spot.

Taz (1:53)

Our players this week are Quartez McShane, Ja'Quoia's boyfriend and our victim and Ja'Quoia Collins. I want murderous.

MaRah Williams (2:03)

Ja'Quoia Shoshana Collins was born on September 14th, 1994, and people also called her Black Sunshine. She is from Cantonment, Florida. And according to TikTok, I have no idea if this is true. This is, they said it was Pensacola's country cousin, right outside the Pensacola area. Small town, Friday Night Lights is the main thing that's going on there. She did graduate from Escambia Charter School in 2012 Before, she went to Northview High School, and her Facebook said that she was in the management training program for McDonald's. She also was a prep cook at KFC since 2015 So no matter what, she's holding down a consistent job. She did have four kids, Zanyla, CJ, Zamani, and then she met a new man. His name was Quatez Deshawn McShane. Most people called him Quazzie or Quazzie. He was born on September 13th, 1997 So I'm pretty sure they were like, oh my gosh, our birthday is only one day apart, you know, give or take the year or so in between. But they're like, oh my goodness, we're both Virgos. Like we just really understand, you know, that Virgo groove, right? Now he graduated from MJ Tate High School. And a lot of people said that he was a very laid back type of guy, just very chill, didn't have anything to say about anybody else. And nobody really had anything bad to say about him.

Now he did work as a pipe layer. And for Ja'Quoia, he also worked as a pipe layer. If you know what I mean.

And for her, it was heavenly.

And from there, she had her fourth child with him, a baby girl named Xaeli. And it seemed like their relationship should have been good.

Taz (3:46)

I wonder how many jokes he made about him being a pipe layer.

MaRah Williams (3:52)

If that was my job, I probably would. If I was a guy and I was a pipe layer and I was laying pipe at home, I'd be like, yeah, baby, I'm about to go to work and come back.

Taz (4:01)

You know that's his pick up line. And like, oh, what you do for work? Me?

I lay pipe. Nah, for real. Nah, for real. Professionally. I put it down.

MaRah Williams (4:08)

I get paid the big bucks for it. You ain't never seen a pipe lay like this. Never felt it either. But they were together. They had their kid and it seemed like they loved it over there.

SPEAKER_4 (4:17)

We got to the point where I start grabbing the trash.

Taz (4:29)

Thing is, they had a lot of passion, you know? And so with passion, sometimes you lose a bit of control. And when you lose a bit of control, sometimes you put your hands on food. And people don't take too kindly to that.

So then you can get the hands put back on you. This was kind of the nature of Ja'Quoia and Quasi's relationship. Police have responded to their apartments quite a few times in a relationship. It had its ups and its downs. It didn't stop them from loving and showing up on each other, you know? In fact, Ja'Quoia voiced her appreciation on Father's Day of 2019 with a post that said, Happy Father's Day to this guy.

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