Rachel Shannon

So Crystal was really excited when Brenda befriended her.

She started taking her to dinners, and when Brenda started complaining to her about Ricky and Kendra,

Crystal offered a listening ear.

Then Brenda expressed to Crystal that she was absolutely fed up with Kendra and the relationship she had with her ex.

She wanted her gone.

So Brenda offered Crystal $500 to help out with taking Kendra out and Crystal said that she agreed because she was dead broke.

It was also stated that Brenda was sort of flaunting her money in the days before they agreed to do this, even more so than she did before.

Obviously, this was to show Crystal that she was good for the money that she promised and to show that like, hey, I live this luxurious lifestyle, you can too.

You just gotta help me out with a little something.

From there, Crystal and Brenda had several discussions and meetings to plan out how they would kill Kendra.

They thought about injecting her with heroin or some sort of sedative.

They discussed shooting her with a gun.

They went through all of these different ideas and decided that the best idea was to shoot her.

Her and Brenda went to Academy Sports and Outdoors to purchase a gun, but they ended up deciding not to purchase it because they figured it would be too easy to track that purchase back to them.

Then, they decided that they wouldn't be able to get it done with just the two of them.

So, Brenda asked Crystal if she knew anybody that would help.

From there, they started driving around Crystal's rundown neighborhood and started asking some neighbors for help.

They sort of asked questions to see if they were credible and if this person would actually be able to help and if they determined that somebody didn't seem right for the job, they would just leave.

But then, Crystal stopped at her mother's house and at the mother's house, there happened to be two men over.

One was a neighbor and the other was a friend of the neighbor named Christopher Love who had brought his children to the home so that they could jump on the trampoline.