Fre zja Matisse Baker, a 31-year-old Black woman and mother of a two-year-old, was last seen after dropping her child at his grandparents’ home on December 4, 2025. That evening she called her brother to say she was about an hour away, but she never returned; uncharacteristic missed calls and undelivered messages prompted a weeklong search by family and friends.

On the morning of December 11 police found Frezja’s body inside her gray 2004 Honda Accord parked on the property of an abandoned church in the 2300 block of Sanders Avenue in west Charlotte. Investigators determined she had died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities arrested 38-year-old Lorenza Thomas Inman Jr. on December 12 in Maxton, about 100 miles southeast of Charlotte. Court documents say a witness reported that Inman confessed, claiming an argument in the car and that the gun went off accidentally as Frezja tried to grab it. Inman was charged with murder, assault on a female and a misdemeanor domestic violence offense and held without bond.

Did anyone in the Charlotte area know Frezja or have information about her last hours?