Phone, payment, vehicle and delivery records helped investigators reconstruct Sept. 23 while clarifying that Mosley was not making DoorDash deliveries then.
SMYRNA, Ga. — Early accounts of Shanteria Mosley’s disappearance centered on her work as a DoorDash driver, with relatives saying she left home expecting to work before she stopped answering them. The investigation that followed has produced a more specific and more complicated record of her final hours: police say the delivery company showed Mosley was not logged in when she was killed, while other digital records placed her at the Smyrna apartment complex where investigators say she met 18-year-old Kingston Bradley.
Those electronic records now form an important part of the murder case against Bradley, who is charged with malice murder and concealing the death of another. Detective Nathaniel Wachowiak testified Oct. 23 that investigators assembled a timeline using phone contact, a camera network, Cash App records, a delivery order and data recovered from Bradley’s phone. Mosley, 25, was fatally shot on Sept. 23, according to the medical examiner. Her remains were later recovered at Park Valley Apartments and from a vehicle searched by police. Bradley was denied bond after the October hearing and remains accused, not convicted.
The DoorDash detail illustrates how an early description of a missing person can differ from what investigators later establish. Mosley was known to work as a delivery driver, and her family initially described her disappearance in that context. Atlanta News First later reported that DoorDash told investigators there was no evidence Mosley had made a delivery to the Park Valley complex and that she was not logged into the platform at the relevant time. The company’s information did not explain why she went to the complex. Later court testimony provided investigators’ answer to that question, although it remains part of the prosecution’s case rather than a proven finding.
Wachowiak testified that Bradley and Mosley appeared to have first made contact on Sept. 23 after Bradley found her telephone number through an online escort advertisement. They spoke around 9 a.m., the detective said. At approximately 9:45 a.m., a Flock camera system recorded the rented Honda driven by Mosley arriving at Park Valley Apartments. The testimony placed her at the complex well before her family realized she was missing and hours before police first arrived. Authorities have not announced a motive for the killing, and prosecutors have not publicly offered a complete account of what happened immediately after Mosley entered the property.
Financial data provided another time marker. Wachowiak testified that about 15 minutes after Mosley’s vehicle arrived, $120 was sent from her Cash App account to Bradley. Investigators believe Bradley made that transaction himself using her account. At about 11:20 a.m., a DoorDash order under Bradley’s name was placed for trash bags and bleach, according to the detective. The order was delivered about an hour later. The irony of DoorDash appearing in the evidence for a purchase attributed to Bradley, while Mosley herself was not logged into the platform, underscores why investigators relied on company records rather than the assumption that her delivery work brought her to Park Valley.
Police believe Mosley had been killed by the time the cleaning supplies arrived. An autopsy later determined she had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, and Smyrna police said investigators placed her death between 10 a.m. and noon. That estimate overlaps with the period covered by the payment and shopping records. During a later search of Bradley’s apartment, investigators reported finding blood staining, cleaning supplies, a mop and bucket, saws and other items they collected as evidence. The apartment smelled strongly of bleach, authorities said. The items became part of the state’s theory that efforts were made to conceal Mosley’s death.
Another piece of digital evidence came directly from Bradley’s phone. Wachowiak testified that investigators found a photograph time-stamped 4:47 p.m. that showed Mosley’s remains in a bedroom. The image has been described in court and by news organizations without needing to reproduce its graphic content. Prosecutors pointed to it as evidence connecting Bradley to Mosley after her death. Police also recovered an unloaded 9 mm handgun that had been reported stolen in Atlanta from beneath a dresser. Investigators did not find shell casings inside the apartment, and laboratory analysis of the firearm and other evidence was not complete when the detective testified.
By early evening, digital location information was also guiding Mosley’s family. When she failed to respond, relatives followed her cellphone location and found the car she had been using at the Park Valley complex. Smyrna officers responded at about 7 p.m. and checked the area where the phone was believed to be. According to later accounts, an officer contacted residents at nearby apartments and was allowed to look briefly inside two homes. Neither Mosley nor her phone was found during that first visit. The officer eventually left, while relatives remained in the area and continued their own search.
What happened after the electronic trail brought the family there depended on an eyewitness rather than a device. Around 8:15 p.m., a witness reported seeing Bradley carrying a large plastic container through an open part of the apartment property. An arrest warrant alleges he dropped it and ran toward his apartment after noticing the witness. Police returned and discovered human remains in the container. Bradley was arrested the following morning on a charge of concealing a death. A search of the apartment and additional warrants transformed the missing-person case into a homicide investigation.
Two days later, police executing a warrant on a vehicle found bags containing additional human remains in the trunk. Smyrna police then said they believed the victim was Mosley and announced that Bradley would face a malice-murder charge. Later reporting identified the vehicle as Mosley’s rental car parked at the apartment complex. The identification resolved one of the earliest uncertainties in the case, but other questions remained, including the precise sequence inside the apartment, the role of the firearm and whether all of the physical evidence recovered by police can be conclusively tied to the killing.
The October hearing showed why the digital timeline is important but not the whole case. Bradley’s attorney, Paul Camarillo, questioned Wachowiak about forensic testing that remained pending with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The unfinished work involved DNA and other biological evidence, fingerprints, a firearm and possible weapons collected during the investigation. Wachowiak also acknowledged that witnesses said Mosley carried a gun in her purse and that some people told investigators they had never seen Bradley with a firearm. The defense’s questioning highlighted a basic distinction between a timeline assembled from records and the proof required to establish criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt.
The hearing also introduced an alleged statement from Bradley that could become part of future litigation. Wachowiak said Bradley’s father, Kenneth Bradley, told police that his son referred to self-defense during a phone conversation after officers arrived at the apartment complex. Kenneth Bradley has not been charged in the case. The detective testified that Kingston Bradley also referred to something beneath a dresser, where police later found the unloaded handgun. Prosecutors have accused Bradley of murder, while any defense based on self-defense has not been decided by a court.
Chief Magistrate Judge Brendan Murphy denied Bradley bond after hearing the evidence and arguments. Mosley’s mother, Jessica McCrary, addressed the court and spoke about the loss of her daughter, who had a 4-year-old child. The case remained active after the hearing, with additional forensic work outstanding and a jury trial expected. What began publicly as the disappearance of a DoorDash worker has therefore become a case defined increasingly by more precise records — when a car arrived, when money moved, when supplies were ordered, when a photograph was created and when relatives finally traced Mosley to the place where investigators say she died.
Author note: Last updated November 8, 2026.