Gaylord M. Surratt, 52, was found dead inside his La Vista, Nebraska home on the afternoon of December 24, 2014, after a neighbor looking in the door discovered him and called 911 around 2:30 p.m. Responding officers saw an apparent gunshot wound to his head and recovered a handgun at the scene. His 79-year-old mother, Rona Surratt, was also in the house with injuries consistent with a gunshot wound and was taken to CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center.

Investigators later concluded, based on scene evidence and forensic processing, that Gaylord Surratt shot his mother in the hallway, causing her to fall and suffer a skull fracture, and then went into the living room and fatally shot himself. Early reporting treated the case as a suspicious death while forensic results were pending; no outside suspect was ever named and the county attorney’s office classified the incident as a murder-suicide.

Did anyone in La Vista know Gaylord or Rona Surratt, or have information about what happened that day?