Monica Kathleen Smith was 26 when she was found with a gunshot wound inside her home on Catherine Simmons Avenue in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Charlotte on May 25, 2019. She was transported to Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center but was pronounced dead upon arrival. Monica was a single mother, a U.S. Army veteran, and was remembered by friends and neighbors as sweet and vivacious; she had hopes of becoming a music artist and was devoted to her 8-year-old son.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department investigated and made multiple arrests: 24-year-old Natron McDougald was arrested and charged on June 6, 2019; 18-year-old Marquis Faulkner was arrested and charged on June 17, 2019; and 31-year-old Donte Clements was arrested and charged on November 8, 2019. Later developments left the family without the closure they sought. Monica’s death was one of several shootings in Lincoln Heights that have affected the community.

If anyone knew Monica, her routines, or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.