Alisha Michelle Canales McGuire was 24 when she was shot to death just after 2 a.m. on September 20, 2017, while babysitting at her sister’s home in Everett, Washington. She answered a knock at the door and was fatally shot in the doorway; the children inside were unharmed but discovered the scene.

Investigators determined the killing resulted from a murder-for-hire plot aimed at Alisha’s sister, Amanda Canales. Suspicion centered on Amanda’s ex-husband, Kevin Lewis. A tip from Spokane led detectives to a 17-year-old woman, Alexis Hale, and her then-boyfriend, Jerradon Phelps, who is Lewis’s cousin. Cell phone records placed Phelps and Hale traveling from Spokane to Everett the night of the shooting, social media posts showed Phelps with hundreds of dollars hours after the murder, and police concluded Hale knocked while Phelps fired multiple shots, killing Alisha.

Lewis, Phelps, and Hale were arrested and charged in the scheme; Phelps and Hale were convicted of murder and Lewis was convicted of first-degree aggravated murder, conspiracy, and solicitation to commit murder, receiving life without parole.