On the morning of October 16, 2019, police responding to an anonymous tip entered a second-floor unit at Crystal Gardens Apartments on Alexandria Drive in Lexington, Kentucky, and found the bodies of 25-year-old Sharmaine Shardea Carter and 24-year-old Marquis Dorell Harris. Investigators concluded both had been dead for several hours; the Fayette County coroner ruled their deaths homicides, each having sustained gunshot wounds to the chest and the back of the head.

Evidence developed by Lexington police pointed to a suspect with ties to Detroit, 43-year-old Antonio Tyree Gaskin. Two latent fingerprints, apartment-building surveillance footage, witness statements and cellphone records placed Gaskin in Lexington and connected him to Harris on the night of the killings; U.S. Marshals arrested Gaskin on December 17, 2019, and he was charged with two counts of murder and one count of failing to report a death. Prosecutors later presented a timeline suggesting Sharmaine was killed shortly before Harris arrived; the defense raised questions about gaps in forensic testing and other uncertainties.

Did anyone know Sharmaine or have information about who might have been involved that night?