Mary Schmitz was 20 when she was killed early on September 18, 2018, in an Independence, Missouri, apartment on Quail Creek Drive. Friends remembered the 2016 Blue Springs High School graduate as compassionate, easy to talk to, and quick to laugh. She lived at the apartment with a roommate.

Harris of Oak Grove, arrived to confront a 21-year-old who was there. The confrontation escalated into a fight, and Harris pulled a gun and shot the 21-year-old. The wounded man grabbed Schmitz and pulled her in front of him; Harris fired again, killing Schmitz. A German shepherd in the apartment was also shot and killed. Officers arrived shortly before 4 a.m., found Schmitz deceased in the living room and the male victim gravely injured in a bedroom, and later located Harris nearby. Harris ultimately confessed, saying he shot Schmitz after the other man had been used as a shield and that he discarded the gun in the woods.

A second person, 20-year-old Michael A. Lora of Blue Springs, was identified by a witness as participating in the exchange of gunfire and was charged in connection with the case.

Does anyone have information about Mary, the apartment on Quail Creek Drive, or the events that night?