Steven Eric Kirchner, 64, and his wife Elizabeth Lee Kirchner, 53, were found dead in their Largo home at 29 Saunders Avenue in the Cardinal Court Mobile Home Park after deputies conducted a welfare check on Friday, June 6, 2025. Deputies arrived around 12:35 p.m. and discovered both victims in the living room with apparent gunshot wounds; an employer had reported one of them hadn’t shown up for work.

Investigators opened a double-homicide investigation and quickly focused on a family member. Detectives named the couple’s son, 37-year-old Nicholas Steven Kirchner, as the suspect. He had reportedly fled Florida, allegedly made threats and pointed a gun at people in Sumter County, South Carolina, then was located and taken into custody in Georgia after a motorist reported a man praying on the roadside. Authorities say he referred to the killings as righteous and allegedly confessed.

By June 7–9, 2025, officials confirmed his arrest on a Florida warrant; he faced two counts of premeditated first-degree murder in Pinellas County with extradition pending. Does anyone have information about the Kirchner family or the mobile home park that could help investigators?