On the evening of December 6, 2022, 22-year-old Shayla Curts was sitting on a living-room couch at a residence in the 4900 block of Bellefontaine Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, when a visitor she had known for years walked past and fired a single 9mm shot that struck her in the head. Curts, who was thirty-one weeks pregnant with her third child and planned to name the baby Soleil, was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead; the unborn child also did not survive.

A shell casing was recovered near the couch. The shooter, identified as an acquaintance, fled north on Bellefontaine Avenue but called 911 the next morning and led detectives to a wooded area where he had discarded the firearm. He was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action; subsequent court filings show a guilty plea and a sentence handed down in 2024.

Does anyone have information about Curts, the residence on Bellefontaine Avenue, or the events that night that could add clarity to what happened?