Rachel Shannon

31-year-old Christopher Love was known around the area for selling weed.

He also had numerous tattoos and a bit of a record.

Starting in his teen years, he had been convicted of all sorts of things from aggravated assault, aggravated robbery and burglary of a residence.

So Brenda and Crystal asked Christopher to chat and he met back up with them at his apartment.

When talking to Christopher, Brenda told him that she had connections to a drug cartel.

which obviously wasn't true, but he didn't know that.

But she promised Christopher that if he helped her take out Kendra, that she would be able to pay him the equivalent of $3,000 in drugs and cash.

Brenda asked Christopher if he had a gun, to which he said yes, and he showed her his .40 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol.

Then, Brenda contacted a firearms dealer and asked them if they had a silencer for a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson.

Based on the court documents, I'm not sure if she did get that silencer, but I think they included it to say that, like, she was contacting people, she was trying to get accessories for a gun, so it showed that she was involved in this entire thing.

She also purchased a pair of gloves for the shooter to wear so that their prints wouldn't be left behind.

Initially, the plan was actually for Crystal to shoot Kendra with Christopher's gun, and he agreed to be the getaway driver.

But they actually ended up swapping roles because Crystal said that she knew the Dallas area better, so she would have been able to drive them around and get them out of there quicker.

Then Brenda decided that the killing needed to take place on September 2nd, the day before Kendra and Ricky were planning to leave for Cancun.

They planned to make it appear like a robbery gone wrong.

And the days before, Crystal and Brenda had followed Kendra around to get an idea of her daily routine, where she would be at certain times, where she parked her car, and things like that.

On September 1st, they all did a dry run where Brenda, Crystal, and Christopher drove from his apartment to Kendra's work and then to her apartment to figure out exactly how the timing should work with everything.

The same day, they stole a temporary license plate off of a blue Durango at a random apartment complex in North Dallas to put on the car on the morning of the murder.

Now, originally, Brenda had actually borrowed a friend's silver BMW that Crystal was going to drive.

Because again, Brenda owned a Lexus, so it seemed that she parked the Lexus elsewhere and then borrowed a friend's BMW to drive on the day of the murder.