On 31 March 2025, security forces found the body of blogger Shawq Al-Anzi in an apartment in the Al-Adl neighbourhood of Baghdad. She had died from a blow to the head with a sharp object. Press reports were conflicted about the nature of the crime. While some confirmed the arrest of the 22-year-old perpetrator after he fled to Anbar Governorate, said that the motive was robbery, other press reports asserted that there was no evidence of a robbery or theft, but confirmed that it was a murder. They also claimed that the killer was the son of a senior official, who had purchased an apartment for Al-Anzi in the Al-Adl neighbourhood and a Land Cruiser.