According to a report by
Daily Mail UK, a boyfriend used the 'Find My Friends' iPhone app to help locate his missing partner - only to discover she had been shot dead.
Lanecia Nelson was found dead near a charter school in southwest Atlanta, Georgia, in the early hours of Wednesday.
The 24-year-old's partner, who has not been named, had been able to pinpoint the area with the help of the app, which uses GPS, and found some of her clothes.
He then flagged down police who made the grim discovery of her body on a woodland trail.
Her death has since been ruled as a homicide after the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office said she had been shot in the head.
A uniformed officer was alerted by the boyfriend on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Police dogs were then used to locate the body at 2.40am about 500 yards away.
Authorities say the man cooperated with police and was not considered a suspect.
Nelson's relatives had reported her missing on Tuesday.
Officer Donald Hannah told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Our homicide unit is working to gather and explore all possible leads.'
Police Lt. Carven Tyus told WSBTV: 'We'll be reaching out to family members, trying to ascertain where exactly the victim was, who she was last seen with, and we'll just seek help from the public in identifying what happened here.'