Carol Lynne Ashcom, 30, was shot to death inside her Virginia Avenue home in Lower Yoder Township, near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 2015. Police were called shortly after 11 a.m. Her child’s father found her; her young son was in the house when she was discovered. An autopsy listed multiple gunshot wounds to the upper torso and ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators tied the killing to a wider drug investigation. Carol had worked as a confidential informant for the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and made controlled buys from Shakir Mosi Smith in April 2014. Prosecutors say Smith, who was jailed in June 2014, learned she was an informant and arranged from prison for her to be killed. Court records include prison letters and recorded prison-visit calls that prosecutors presented as evidence the killing was ordered from behind bars.

At trial, witnesses including India Snyder and former cellmates testified Smith ordered the killing; Smith denied it. The jury convicted him of solicitation to commit murder and first-degree murder as an accomplice, and he later received a life sentence and appealed. Reporting and court records identify Smith as the person convicted of ordering Carol’s killing but do not identify a convicted shooter.

Did anyone in the Johnstown area know Carol or have information about people linked to this case?