Markeshia Stone, 33, was shot multiple times and killed in her Baton Rouge apartment at the Highland Club complex on Jefferson Highway on the night of October 12, 2022. Her other children were in the residence; Stone was taken to a nearby hospital but died of her injuries.

Police say the investigation uncovered an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving two 16-year-olds: Stone’s daughter, Jermyne Lewis, and Dwayne Barfield. Authorities allege Lewis paid Barfield a few hundred dollars to shoot her mother after a dispute about where the teenager wanted to live. Just before the shooting, Lewis reportedly led her younger siblings into another room.

Both teenagers were taken into custody and are reported to have confessed: Barfield admitted he was the shooter and that Lewis solicited him, while Lewis confessed to planning the killing. Does anyone have information about Markeshia, her family, or that apartment complex on Jefferson Highway?