Damara Alexis Kirkland, 35, was found shot to death in her Sycamore Street apartment in St. Paul on October 19, 2024. She was about two months pregnant. Law enforcement responded to reports of gunshots just after 9 p.m.; paramedics declared her dead around 9:30 p.m. Investigators noted multiple 9mm shell casings at the scene and found ultrasound photos and a letter addressed to her estranged husband, Michael Allan Stowers, also known as Mychel Stowers, 36.

Stowers, who was on parole for a 2008 second-degree murder conviction and had been granted permission to visit Kirkland the day of the shooting, had filed for divorce in June that had not been finalized. Shortly after the murder, an incident nearby involved an assailant matching Stowers’ description who carjacked a vehicle and shot a 36-year-old man, who suffered a broken femur, and attempted to shoot another person before fleeing. Stowers reportedly contacted the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office confessing to a shooting and saying he wanted to turn himself in but did not surrender; he was later killed by police on November 12, 2024.

Who in the St. Paul area might have seen Stowers the evening of October 19 or has information about the visit that day?