Randie Smith

Randie Smith, a 27-year-old Black woman from Kansas City, Missouri, was remembered by loved ones as a "kindred spirit" and "phenomenal." On the evening of August 23, 2021, she arranged to complete a simple transaction that would end in tragedy: selling a PlayStation 4 gaming console she had listed on Facebook Marketplace for $225.

Around 8 p.m., Smith drove to a BP gas station at Independence Avenue and The Paseo to meet the potential buyer. While she was parked and on the phone with a family member, two men approached her car. Surveillance footage from the gas station captured what happened next. After Smith opened her driver's side door, a struggle began with one of the men. The second man moved to the passenger side of the vehicle, armed with a handgun, and fired a shot into the front windshield. As Smith sped away from the gas station in an attempt to escape, the man reportedly fired again.

Suffering from gunshot wounds to her wrist and chest, Smith lost control of her car. It struck a utility pole and overturned near Independence and Garfield avenues. First responders arrived to find her deceased inside the vehicle, and the Jackson County Medical Examiner's Office later ruled her death a homicide. At the gas station, investigators recovered two spent 9mm shell casings from the parking lot.

Detectives used the Facebook messages exchanged with the supposed buyer to track down three suspects. They arrested brothers Raynell S. Muldrew-Golston, 21, and Latrell Muldrew-Golston, 21, along with 18-year-old Keron Black. All three were charged with second-degree murder, and Raynell Muldrew-Golston faced an additional charge for armed criminal action. According to court records, Black admitted to police that he had set up a Facebook account for the brothers as part of a planned robbery and had acted as a lookout. Raynell Muldrew-Golston reportedly told police he did "something stupid" because he was scared.

In July 2025, Latrell Muldrew-Golston pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of attempted first-degree robbery. A judge sentenced him to five years in prison for his role in the crime. As of that month, the cases against his co-defendants, Raynell Muldrew-Golston and Keron Black, remained pending in the court system.