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Missing Ayanna Nneka Smith 
Smith, approximately 2017; Malcolm Hunter Date reported missing : 01/21/2017 Missing location (approx) : Enterprise, Alabama Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Female Ethnicity : Black DOB : 02/05/1990 (31) Age at the time of disappearance: 26 years old Height / Weight : 5'0, 150 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A blue scrub shirt, blue scrub pants and black shoes. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Smith's ears are pierced. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Smith was last seen on west Brunson Street in Enterprise, Alabama at 10:00 p.m. on January 21, 2017. She has never been heard from again. That evening, witnesses heard a gunshot in the parking lot of the apartment complex here she lived. Later that night, her boyfriend, Malcolm Theotis Hunter, was sighted driving her car up to a bank ATM. He was alone at the time. When police recovered the car, Smith's cellular phone and wallet were inside it. There was also a large amount of blood in the passenger compartment. An anonymous tip lead police to a silver handgun, registered to Smith, in a vacant lot on west Adams Street and Warren Road. Based on another tip, authorities recovered Hunter's bloodstained clothes and shoes. A photo of Hunter is posted with this case summary. He was arrested and charged with Smith's murder on February 2. At first he claimed he didn't know what happened to her, but the third time police questioned him, he stated his aunt had shot Smith in the chest during an argument at his aunt's apartment, then drove away with her and returned without her. Investigators checked the apartment in question, but found no evidence that a shooting had taken place there. In the spring of 2018, Hunter was tried for Smith's murder. The blood found in Hunter's car was hers, one witness testified that he'd seen Hunter "with what appeared to be the lifeless body of a woman in his car," and another witness said Hunter asked him for help in getting rid of a handgun. The jury convicted Hunter after only 45 minutes' deliberation. He was sentenced to the maximum term, life in prison without parole, under the Habitual Felony Offender Act; he has four previous felony convictions. Smith left behind two young children. Her body has not been found, but foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved. Other information and links : ncy Enterprise Police Department 334-347-2222 |