On the night of December 8, 2023, a violent encounter outside a parked van near East Cleveland Avenue and North Cuba Street in Spokane left two people dead. Officers who responded shortly after 11 p.m. found 37-year-old Colton Russell deceased in the driver’s seat and 23-year-old Kiara Morgan-Weiland on the ground. An autopsy determined Russell had been shot six times and Kiara stabbed more than 50 times.

Detectives say the attack was not random and that the victims knew their killer. A home surveillance video reportedly captured the attack, showing a man by the van as gunfire shattered its windows and then showing Kiara running before the assailant attacked her with a knife, appearing to slash at her throat. Investigators later arrested a suspect who, according to authorities, confessed and provided a motive tied to an earlier disappearance.

What details about Kiara’s life or movements before December 8 might help clarify what happened that night?