Christina Virginia Smith, 30, was found shot to death at her home on Bush Chapel Drive in Winder, Georgia, in early March 2022. Family grew worried after she failed to show for a hotel shift and was unreachable; her mother had last heard from her by text shortly after midnight on March 3, when Christina replied I love you, mommy. After two days without contact, police conducted a welfare check on March 5 and discovered Christina and her 29-year-old fiancé Marcus Gardner, both shot to death. A light green Ford Escape belonging to one of the victims was missing from the residence.

Investigators, with assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, focused on a 25-year-old man who had been living with the couple as a temporary roommate since January, identified as Martell Scott. Authorities tracked the stolen Ford Escape to Missouri and on March 18, 2022, arrested Scott in Kansas City; he was charged in Georgia with two counts of murder, two counts of felony murder, and one count of possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime and taken into custody at the Barrow County Detention Center.

Does anyone have information about Christina’s last days, the roommate who moved in January, or the Ford Escape’s movements after March 5?