On February 16, 2021, Luiza Shinkarevskaya, 40, was fatally shot in Newark, New Jersey. She and her friend Anna Shpilberg, also 40, had just returned from a vacation in Cancun. Both women had emigrated from Ukraine to the United States years earlier.

A 24-year-old Hudson County corrections officer, John Menendez, picked the women up at Newark Liberty International Airport. Menendez shot Shinkarevskaya in the head at a park-and-fly lot and then drove a short distance to an area near Newark Penn Station where he shot Shpilberg, who was in the passenger seat of her car. A 9mm handgun was found near Shinkarevskaya’s body. Menendez approached a Newark police officer shortly afterward with blood on his clothes and confessed to the killings.

Texts recovered from the days before the shootings showed Menendez becoming increasingly angry and jealous about the Cancun trip. If anyone knew Luiza, Anna, their travel plans, or saw them at the airport or the park-and-fly lot that day, please share what was seen or heard.