On February 9, 2024, two women were fatally shot at a home in the 1300 block of North Lynn Street in Independence, Missouri. Officers arriving around 3:30 p.m. found one woman in the driveway and another on the basement floor; the victims were identified as 47-year-old Jessika Koehler and her sister Janessa Russell.

Surveillance from the home showed a silver vehicle arrive and a man, later identified as 48-year-old Namphonh Suady, exit armed with a pistol, run into the driveway, and fire toward the house. Shots were also fired from inside the residence. Suady fled on foot bleeding and was tracked and arrested near Noland Road and East Elizabeth Street with a gunshot wound to his left arm; a 9mm handgun and a pool of blood were recovered near a nearby residence. Suady was described as Koehler’s ex-boyfriend and has a prior domestic assault conviction; prosecutors charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm and said the investigation remained active.

If anyone knew Jessika, Janessa, the relationship dynamics at the Lynn Street home, or saw a silver vehicle in the neighborhood that afternoon, please come forward with information.