On December 19, 2019, 21-year-old Malik Tyree Smith drove to the 1800 block of Russell Avenue North in Minneapolis under the impression he was meeting a woman to sell marijuana. The meeting had been arranged over Facebook, and the woman, Destiny Bradshaw, then 20, was used as bait in what investigators say was a planned robbery involving three people.

As Smith sat in his car two men, identified as James T. Moore, 21, and Tyreik L. Perkins, 20, approached. Moore attempted to open the car door, which was locked, and then fired into the vehicle, striking Smith. Smith drove away but crashed into a tree a short distance from the scene; officers found him behind the wheel with a gunshot wound to his torso and he was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Moore and Perkins ran to Bradshaw’s nearby apartment, where police later located them along with two handguns.

Moore was charged as the shooter, Perkins faced charges for aiding an offender and being an accomplice after the fact, and Bradshaw was charged in connection with the incident. If anyone knew Malik, Destiny, James, or Tyreik, or has information about the events on Russell Avenue North that night, please share what is known.