During the stormy night on July 14, 2023 Taylor-Adams was at her central Topeka apartment with Alonzoe when she said his father, Alfred A. Smith, showed up outside of her window asking to come inside. Taylor-Adams said she let him in and stepped outside to tell a friend and a cousin Alonzoe’s dad was visiting.
She said she hadn’t seen Smith since he left her and Alonzoe at the hospital a couple days after he was born.
“I didn’t even make it back upstairs,” she said. “I heard a gunshot.”
She said she tried to get back into the apartment after hearing what she believes was a gunshot.
“Alfred comes running down the stairs with my son in his arms,” Taylor-Adams recalled tearfully. “With blood every where, and he passes my baby to me like he’s sleep.”
She said she didn’t see a gun on Smith and she didn’t even know he was coming to visit.
“I’m just so sorry,” she said. “I was gone for two seconds, and I never expected any of this. Like, I left him in the hands of his dad. I regret letting him in, especially because he hasn’t been there. He left us when he was two days old.”