Candace Craig, 32, was fatally shot on the evening of December 12, 2019, in the Riverview Gardens Apartments parking lot on the 400 block of Highland Avenue in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Police discovered her near her vehicle after responding to reports of gunfire around 8:00 p.m.; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators later described the killing as a calculated ambush and uncovered that a GPS tracking device had been secretly attached to Craig’s Nissan Altima. The device reportedly allowed her movements to be monitored for about five months and was removed from the car on the day she was killed. Authorities tied that surveillance to a broader pattern of technology-aided stalking in the area.

In October 2021 federal and local prosecutors indicted Michael Smith, alleging he purchased and used the GPS tracker that led to the ambush and that he and co-conspirators ran a larger criminal enterprise tied to insurance fraud and at least one other killing. Court documents did not immediately name the specific shooter in Craig’s case. Did anyone in the area see unusual activity around Highland Avenue or the Riverview Gardens Apartments before December 12, 2019?