In a horrific Apple AirTag case, woman hunts down and kills boyfriend in the US

A US woman tracked her boyfriend by using an Apple AirTag and killed him over a suspected affair.

Apple AirTag is designed to help people locate their belongings, but this woman hunted down her own boyfriend. (Jhinuk Sen/HT Tech)

An Apple AirTag has been used in a most horrible manner to carry out a murder by a young woman. Airtags had earlier also caused a few controversies after cases emerged of their misuse to track people illegally. Apple Airtags were launched to help people find misplaced belongings like keys or any other things. But it can be used for criminal purposes too! In a tragic case, it has emerged that a woman in the US has used an Apple AirTag to track her boyfriend who she suspected was cheating on her. That's not all, once she found him, she ran him over with her vehicle and killed him. Gaylyn Morris, 26, used an AirTag to follow her boyfriend, Andre Smith, to a bar in Indianapolis. As per the court records, Morris told a witness that she had placed an AirTag on Smith's car to track him. Upon following him, she found him with another woman inside a bar and got into a heated conversation that became serious. Later, the three were asked to leave the bar, and after that she hit her boyfriend with her car and ran over him. Witnesses have confirmed that Morris had a heated confrontation with Smith and another woman inside the bar.

While Smith was found dead at the scene, Morris was arrested and accused of murder by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police. Initially she denied that she had placed a tracker on Smith's car, but later admitted to doing so, the affidavit said.

This case raises concerns about the misuse of the Apple AirTags, launched in April 2021, it is being used to track and locate unsuspecting people instead of the things it was launched for. Morris' case wasn't the first such case as earlier in January, Brooks Nader, a Sports Illustrated model, claimed that someone tried to track her in New York City by using the device.

Later in February, Apple introduced new safety features that would notify users of unwanted tracking and also help locate hidden AirTags to ensure safety.

"AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person's property, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products," Apple said in a statement.