On the night of January 5, 2021, 39-year-old Jessica Kennedy was found in a North Phoenix apartment near 35th Avenue and Bell Road with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Police entered the residence just before midnight after a welfare check and discovered the weapon used in the shooting was missing from the scene.

Suspicion centered on Kennedy’s 63-year-old boyfriend, Cecil Noyola Jr. Reports say Noyola had been acting erratically in the days before the shooting and left Arizona after the death; he turned himself in to authorities on January 7, 2021. Noyola later admitted giving the gun to a friend, and the firearm was recovered after that friend was arrested. Noyola was charged in connection with Kennedy’s killing.

What information might help clarify the circumstances in the hours before Jessica Kennedy was killed?