On the afternoon of June 12, 2025, 47-year-old Sariah Robinson was shot inside her Woodward Avenue home in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Officers found her with critical gunshot wounds; she was taken to a local hospital and died later that day. The incident was investigated as domestic violence.

Witnesses at the scene identified Robinson’s 55-year-old husband, Robert H. Lofton, as the shooter. Prosecutors say Robinson was in the process of divorcing Lofton at the time. One of Robinson’s sons told investigators he saw his stepfather raise a handgun and shoot his mother, then fled the home with his siblings as he heard two more shots.

Lofton fled after the shooting but was found hours later on Lilac Lane. As officers approached, he turned the gun on himself and suffered a critical self-inflicted gunshot wound; after medical treatment he was arrested. He was arraigned from the hospital and ordered held without bond on charges that include open murder, two felony firearm counts, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and carrying a concealed weapon. Court records show 26 prior appearances for Lofton since 1990.

Did anyone in Kalamazoo know Sariah or her family and have information that could help clarify what happened that day?