Genise Carter, a 43-year-old Black woman, was found dead on January 25, 2024, at the end of a desolate street in Birmingham, Alabama, in what local authorities have described as a homicide. Investigators pieced together earlier events from surveillance footage: on January 21, footage from a Shell gas station shows Carter being brutally beaten and then abducted in the early morning hours.

Two men were identified and charged in connection with the abduction and murder: 21-year-old Jayden Gildersleeve and 62-year-old Michael Spellman. Both were charged with capital murder and kidnapping, and a Jefferson County District Judge found probable cause on March 12 to send the cases to a grand jury; both were ordered held without bond. Reportedly, surveillance video shows Gildersleeve forcing Carter into a vehicle at gunpoint, and authorities say Carter knew one of the alleged attackers.

What details about the days before January 21 might help explain how Carter came to be targeted, and can anyone who knew her movements that week help investigators?