Brittaney Hayes-Smith, 31, was shot dead inside a Baltimore home on May 3, 2021. A cosmetologist and devoted mother, she had moved out from the residence about two months earlier; her estranged husband, Gerald Smith, was living there when officers found her unresponsive on the living room floor with a fatal gunshot wound. Witnesses say she was last seen leaving a friend’s house and getting into a vehicle with Smith, and another person reported hearing four gunshots and later saw Smith’s car parked in front of the home.

Investigators connected Brittaney’s slaying to a separate shooting the day before, on May 2, 2021, when Marvis Pollock was found shot to death on West Fairmount Avenue. Ballistics linked the two scenes, and surveillance and cell phone records placed Gerald Smith at Pollock’s location. Smith left Baltimore after Brittaney’s death and was later taken into custody and returned to the city.

Anyone who knew Brittaney, saw her on May 2–3, 2021, or has information about either shooting is asked to come forward.