On the evening of October 11, 2024, 44-year-old Anastasia Sergeyevna Akutsina was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in the garage of a home on Black Rock Hills Drive in a gated Henderson neighborhood. Her 20-year-old son, Sergei Evan Scoggins, was also found fatally shot in the laundry room. A 5-year-old child in the residence was unharmed.

When officers arrived around 6 p.m., Anastasia’s husband, 41-year-old Karl Groschen, was present and was taken into custody after telling officers he thought someone was trying to kill him. Investigators say they found no evidence supporting that claim. A neighbor reported hearing a gunshot, seeing Groschen push his stepson out of the garage and then hearing screams and additional gunfire as the young man ran back into the house.

A grand jury indicted Groschen on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of child abuse for domestic violence in the presence of a child. His defense requested a competency hearing; a judge later found him competent to stand trial. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty.

Did anyone in the Highland Glenn community see or hear anything that night that could help explain what happened?