Brittanie Broyles, 28, was found shot twice in the head near the Super Flea market in the Northeast area of Kansas City on August 8, 2018. Her death followed a sequence of violent events that began days earlier when an associate, James Hampton, was seized and brutally beaten in St. Louis by members of a drug trafficking organization led by Trevor Scott Sparks. Broyles had been a witness to Hampton’s assault and was taken with him to Kansas City. She secretly sent texts to family and friends pleading for help, but her captors discovered the messages and moved her between locations; authorities concluded she was killed because she had witnessed Hampton’s abduction and beating. Hampton’s charred remains were discovered two days before Broyles’s body was found.

The investigation later exposed a large methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that operated across Missouri. Two associates, Gerald Lee Ginnings and Markus Michael A. Patterson, were identified as the individuals who carried out Broyles’s murder. An invitation to anyone who knew Brittanie or has information about her killing to come forward.