On September 10, 2022, two people were shot to death in Louisville’s Russell neighborhood. Officers first responded to a report near the 400 block of 26th Street and found 26-year-old Edward Lamont Smith fatally shot. Minutes later police answered another call to an alley in the 2500 block of Cedar Street, where 24-year-old Alexis McCrary was found inside a vehicle; she had also been shot and killed.

McCrary and Smith were in a relationship. McCrary was a mother of two young sons; her family described her as kind-hearted and said her death left them devastated as they seek justice. Detectives reviewed surveillance footage, identified a suspect vehicle and made arrests tied to the investigations.

Thirty-one-year-old Maurice Gibson was charged with two counts of complicity to murder and, according to police, admitted to driving the primary murder suspect away from the scene. Thirty-one-year-old Paul Wade was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and with being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun; he pleaded not guilty. Does anyone have information about either victim or the events that day?