16-year-old girl shot in throat during sleepover while ‘fixing her friend’s hair’ at vanity, 21-year-old woman charged: DA

A “normal” teenage sleepover ended in bloodshed for a 16-year-old girl in Missouri earlier this month, with cops saying she was “shot in the throat” and killed by a 21-year-old woman while “fixing her friend’s hair” at a vanity, according to prosecutors.

Bailey Lewis, of Lenexa, is charged with second-degree felony murder in the killing of Traelynn Sibley, a Grandview High School student who was just days away from starting her junior year when Lewis gunned her down at a home in the 3600 block of Norton Avenue on Aug. 9, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.

The fatal shooting was allegedly carried out by Lewis as she drove past the residence. Cops say she was targeting someone else inside the home who had a “falling out” with her after Lewis allegedly let the person get “jumped” at a gas station months earlier, among other things.

“The general spacing of the casings seemed to indicate the person(s) firing the shots were in motion southbound … as they were firing,” Kansas City Police detective David Adair wrote in Lewis’ probable cause affidavit. “The home itself and a red Mazda in the driveway were struck numerous times by gunfire. The home had bullet damage/fragments inside and outside and a large amount of apparent blood leading from the living room to the bathroom area.”

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According to prosecutors, Traelynn was visiting a friend and spending the night at the residence when Lewis pulled up and started blasting as the girls were doing their hair. Detectives interviewed multiple people who were inside the home “whose stories were all very similar,” per the affidavit.

“They described a normal night with two of the females fixing each other’s hair at a vanity near the front door of the structure, one female was in back bedroom while two adult males were playing video games in the living room,” the affidavit says.

“A toddler was also present in the home,” the document adds. “They heard the sound of gunshots and observed projectiles entering the home through the front door and living room wall/window area near the front door. The juvenile female struck by gunfire was fixing her friend’s hair at the vanity when she was shot in the throat. She ran to the bathroom where she collapsed.”

Witnesses told cops that Lewis, who was identified through surveillance video that showed her 2025 Hyundai Elantra allegedly coming and going from the scene, knew where her former acquaintance lived and was upset at her for stealing something with a male friend of theirs — a claim the person denied, the affidavit says.

They had “not associated for a couple months” after Lewis accused the person of the theft, according to prosecutors. The relationship between them “soured from there until they stopped speaking at all,” the affidavit alleges.

One witness said the person inside the home who knew Lewis also had a “falling out with Bailey over Bailey letting her get ‘jumped’ at a gas station months before the homicide,” according to the complaint. It’s unclear if any arrests or charges stemmed from the incident.

Detectives allegedly found social media posts linking Lewis to the person inside the home who knew her, and the former friend also identified her. Lewis was also linked to another shooting that allegedly took place 15 minutes earlier at an apartment building, with Lewis’ Elantra being spotted on video near that scene too, the affidavit says.

“It should be noted the drive time via Google Maps is between 11-18 minutes from location to location depending on the route you take,” the affidavit says. “This drive time aligned with the approximate time frame between the incidents if a car fired shots into [the apartment complex] and then drove straight to [the former friend’s home].”

In addition to murder, Lewis also faces multiple counts of accessory to armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon, prosecutors announced Friday. She was being held over the weekend on a $400,000 bond and was still at the Jackson County Detention Center as of Sunday, records show.

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