After seeing him with another woman in Indiana, a woman allegedly used an Apple AirTag to track her lover to a bar and killed him by running her car over him three times.
At 12:30 a.m. on June 3, 26-year-old Gaylyn Morris allegedly hit her boyfriend, also 26, Andre Smith with her car in the parking lot of Tilly’s in Indianapolis.
According to a statement on the likely reason for Morris’s arrest, a witness said Morris told her how she tracked Smith down with an AirTag.
According to the Indianapolis Star, she also claimed to be in a relationship with the victim and believed he was cheating on her with another woman.
“Officers arrived and found Mr. Smith lying on the ground under a vehicle,” the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a press release. “Apparently he was hit by the vehicle. The Indianapolis Fire Department (IFD) Engine Company 6 responded and unfortunately stated that Mr. Smith died at the scene.
Morris allegedly grabbed an empty wine bottle and swung it at the other woman after getting to Tilly. Because Smith intervened and caught the bottle, she didn’t hit it.
Staff told the three to leave a short time later.
A witness later told police she was in a pub when she saw Morris pull up in the parking lot and pull Smith down with her car.
“And it went down, at what time… [Morris] then backwards over him and then pulled forward and hit him for the third time,” the affidavit of probable cause said.
After she got out of her vehicle, Morris allegedly tried to run after the woman, but police intervened and arrested her. The woman who had been in the pub with Smith at the time of the incident was unharmed.
Morris has been held at the Marion County Jail since Sunday night and charged with murder, according to online jail records.
According to local authorities, the Marion County Attorney’s Office will review the charges and determine whether additional charges should be filed.
According to Law and Crime, the suspect is due to appear in court for the first time on Tuesday.
Apple AirTags are coin-sized gadgets that can be attached to keys, backpacks, purses, and other items to help people find them with their iPhone when they go missing.
Stalkers also use the $30 device to track people. Apple assured customers that if an AirTag became detached from its owner when it was released in April 2021, AirTags would prevent “unwarranted tracking” by notifying a nearby iPhone. The car’s driver should be notified that an AirTag was nearby is or drives with him.
The AirTag should then start making a sound to alert those near its location. On the other hand, some users claim that it can take hours or even days for the alarm and sound to be sent, and they can even be turned off.
According to Apple’s website, the AirTag’s location is also sent to the user’s iCloud, where it can be viewed on a map. Through the Find My app, the system gives its owner step-by-step instructions on how to find the tag before finally picking it up.
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