On February 28, 2022, 13-year-old Samia Mora Gutierrez was killed during a supervised visit at The Church in Sacramento. The incident also claimed the lives of her two younger sisters, Samantha and Samarah, and their court-appointed chaperone, Nathaniel Kong.

Court records and family testimony describe a long history of abuse between Mora and the girls’ mother, Illeana Gutierrez Rios. Gutierrez Rios had obtained a five-year domestic violence restraining order in May 2021 but the court allowed supervised visits; Kong had been appointed as the chaperone. Mora had recent arrests in Merced County for assaulting an officer and driving under the influence, and despite the restraining order barring him from possessing firearms, he obtained a gun used in the killings. The family had been living separately, and Mora had been staying at the church where the visit took place.

What details about the supervised-visit arrangement or the court decisions still need clarification for readers who followed this case?