He Was Out on a $3,500 Bond With a “No Violent Contact” Condition. Police Say He Killed a Neighbor Days Later.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026, evening. Officers responding to a missing-person report at Park Valley Apartments in Smyrna, Georgia, say a witness saw Kingston Bradley, 18, carrying a plastic tub through the complex. He dropped it and fled inside when he noticed he’d been seen. Officers opened the container and found a dismembered human torso.
Police believe the remains are Shanteria “KT” Mosley, 26 — identification that, as of the most recent reporting, still awaited DNA confirmation. Bradley is charged with malice murder and concealing the death of another and is held without bond. What’s already on the record, separate from this case entirely, is that he was free at the time on a $3,500 bond from a prior violent-conduct charge, with a court condition explicitly barring further violent contact.
- 18suspect's ageKingston Bradley, charged with malice murder and concealing a death — held without bond.
- $3,500prior bond amountSet in a Dec. 2024 case involving his father; conditions barred alcohol, drugs, firearms, and further violent contact.
- 2prior violent-conduct casesDec. 2024 (terroristic threats, battery) and Feb. 2026 (family-violence battery) — both predate this case.
- 0confirmed identificationPolice 'believe' the remains are Shanteria Mosley; DNA testing was reported still underway.
Police were dispatched to Park Valley Apartments around 6:57 p.m. Wednesday on a missing-person report tied to Mosley’s phone and vehicle location. Recalled to the scene after a witness reported seeing Bradley carrying and then abandoning a plastic tub, officers searched his apartment and, according to police, found multiple bloodstains, a blood-covered saw, a mop, a bucket of water, carpet cleaner, and a strong smell of bleach. A warrant was filed in Cobb Magistrate Court early Thursday charging Bradley with concealing the death of another; he was booked into the Cobb County jail around noon that day and held without bond.
On Friday evening, detectives executing a search warrant on a vehicle found additional remains in garbage bags in the trunk. The charge was upgraded to malice murder. Lt. Meredith Holt of the Smyrna Police Department, at a press briefing, called it “a shocking crime… a particularly gruesome crime. I can’t imagine what the family is going through.”
Bradley was not a stranger to the criminal justice system when this happened. In December 2024, he was charged with two counts of terroristic threats, battery, simple battery, and criminal trespass in an incident involving his father — prosecutors say he threatened his father’s life, struck him with an Xbox controller, broke down a bedroom door, and pushed a 15-year-old witness into a window hard enough to break it. He was released on a $3,500 bond with conditions barring alcohol, drugs, firearms, and any further violent contact with his father or the teenage witness. He pleaded not guilty at an April arraignment, with a calendar call scheduled for October 6 — a date now overtaken by the new charge. A separate family-violence battery charge followed in February 2026.
Bradley’s father, Kenneth Bradley, released a public statement after his son’s arrest: “I did not know the victim or her family and do not know how or if my son knew her.” He said his son has struggled with mental illness for six years and had, as recently as the week of the arrest, been seeking inpatient treatment.
Outlets covering the case have not been consistent on identification status, and this story follows the most cautious, most recent language available. ABC News’ September 27 report states police “believe” the remains are Mosley’s and that DNA testing was underway “to get an absolute confirmation.” The Cobb County Courier likewise reports the medical examiner had not yet confirmed identity as of its most recent filing. Any relationship between Bradley and Mosley — family, neighbor, stranger — remains, per police, under investigation.
An 18-year-old Smyrna man faces a malice murder charge after detectives searching a vehicle Friday evening discovered human remains believed to be missing woman Shanteria 'KT' Mosley, according to the Smyrna Police Department.
Bradley was released on a $3,500 bond in December 2024 with a specific, written condition prohibiting further violent contact. That condition covered his father and a named witness — not the general public, and not Mosley. A second battery charge in February 2026 did not result in pretrial detention either.
Whether a magistrate judge, a bond schedule, or a prosecutor’s recommendation set those terms has not been reported. This is not a story about a specific official’s decision — it is a documented fact pattern: a suspect with two prior violent-conduct charges and an active no-contact condition was free in the community when police say he committed a third, far more serious offense.
Bradley is held without bond on the malice murder and concealing-death charges. No trial date has been set. His father’s statement confirms the family is cooperating with detectives; Mosley’s aunt, Michelle Weaver, told reporters simply: “We just want justice, and we want the truth.” Search efforts for any additional remains were reported to be continuing as of the most recent update.
An 18-year-old with two prior violent-conduct charges and a written no-contact bond condition is now charged with malice murder. The victim’s identity is still, formally, unconfirmed. What’s already documented is enough to ask a hard question about what a $3,500 bond and a no-violence condition actually prevented.
