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Kayla Burke, a 21-year-old artist, was fatally stabbed in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in the early hours of Christmas morning 2016. The attack occurred about 2 a.m. on the 1400 block of Pearl Street after Burke had earlier that evening asked police for a civil standby while moving belongings out of the apartment of her former boyfriend, 23-year-old Marshall Westcott. She told officers she was fine after retrieving her things and planned to wait for a ride.

Later that night a violent altercation drew police, who found Burke unresponsive; she died at the scene. A 20-year-old friend of Burke’s, Joseph O’Neill, suffered serious injuries in the same attack. Witnesses reported seeing a man with a knife who allegedly said he had killed people before turning the weapon on himself. Westcott was located with apparent self-inflicted neck wounds, initially refused commands to drop the knife and was tased; he was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and later arrested. The Denver District Attorney’s Office charged Westcott with first-degree murder in Burke’s death and attempted first-degree murder for the attack on O’Neill.

Does anyone have information about Burke’s movements that night or saw anything on Pearl Street around 2 a.m.?