On February 16, 2021, 18-year-old Gracyn-Michael Candace Brickley was shot twice with a .22 rifle and killed at a home on Guy Road in Maple Grove Township, near Nashville, Michigan. Investigators say the assailant recorded nearly eleven minutes of footage during which he stomped on and taunted the dying woman; her body was later concealed in the snow behind the residence and discovered the next day after the video was shown to others.

Twenty-one-year-old Andrew John-Lawrence Lafey was arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, torture, and multiple firearm offenses. He waived a jury trial and, after a four-day bench trial in April 2022 that included the recorded video as evidence, was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In July 2022 authorities charged three other people alleging they aided Lafey after the killing: Dustin Scott Stephens faces perjury, tampering with evidence, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and accessory after the fact; Coleen Marie Rice and Sheralyn Randolph face tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact counts, with Randolph subject to an enhanced sentence as a habitual offender.

Did anyone in the Maple Grove Township area know Gracyn-Michael or notice anything unusual around Guy Road in mid-February 2021?