Late on the night of July 6, 2024, Matthew Szejnrok, 22, and his girlfriend, Kelley McCollom, 38, were killed inside their Palm Bay, Florida, home in an attack that began when McCollom’s 16-year-old daughter, Julia Egler, ambushed them. Investigators say Egler had armed herself with a .38-caliber handgun and a chef’s knife taken from her mother’s bedroom, waited in the kitchen and shot McCollom multiple times when the couple arrived. She then shot Szejnrok repeatedly; after exhausting her ammunition she followed him into a bathroom and stabbed him, and later shot him once more in the head, according to police reports.

Officers arrived just after midnight on July 7 after Egler called 911 claiming an intruder had attacked the couple. Evidence at the scene — a gun under her bedroom window, a bloody knife on the bathroom counter and bloody footprints matching her shoes — contradicted that account, and Egler later confessed, saying she had reached a boiling point over longstanding conflicts with her mother, including disputes over Egler’s gender transition and disapproval of McCollom’s relationship with Szejnrok. A grand jury later indicted Egler on two counts of first-degree premeditated murder and the state attorney’s office announced she would be tried as an adult.

If anyone in Palm Bay had seen or heard anything the night of July 6 that could shed more light on what happened, please share information with investigators.