A Madison County grand jury apparently indicted a Huntsville woman for theft last week - despite the fact that she was shot to death in December.

Kandace Kadeirdra Faulk, 22, was shot multiple times and killed Dec. 4 inside her home at the Executive Lodge Apartments on John Wesley Way. She was the last of 28 people slain in Madison County in 2015.

Kandace Faulk (Contributed photo)

Records from the Madison County Circuit Clerk's Office show that the grand jury returned a "true bill," or a decision stating that members heard sufficient evidence to believe that a crime was committed, against Faulk in its January session. Faulk was arrested in October for first-degree theft after being accused of stealing more than $2,700 in merchandise from a local Wal-Mart.

It was not immediately known how and when prosecutors and defense attorneys are notified when a defendant in a case dies. Assistant Madison County District Attorney Melissa Heron, the prosecutor in Faulk's theft case, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

AL.com took a look at other cases in which a defendant or other party in a case was killed before a resolution could be reached. Michael Alan Chapman, a Crossville man allegedly shot and killed during a dispute with a neighbor in October, was facing a charge of making terrorist threats at the time of his death.

Online court records in the case give no indication of his death. Unlike Faulk, Chapman had been indicted several months before he died.

Following the Aug. 5 slaying of Kristen Chambers Henderson and four of her immediate family members, however, court records in her divorce include a document informing the court that Henderson had died. The document, called a "Suggestion of Death," was filed Sept. 11 by her divorce attorney.

No one has been charged in Faulk's death. Anyone with information about her slaying should call Huntsville police investigators at 256-722-7100.