In the early morning hours of January 22, 2023, a double homicide occurred at a residence in the 800 block of Southwest Street in Sikeston, Missouri. Officers found 33-year-old Kiara D. Haynes, a Black male, dead of gunshot wounds; his wife, 27-year-old Breana C. Conner, was critically wounded at the scene and later died at a hospital. Haynes was known to friends and family as Yer or Nova and worked as a chef who enjoyed traveling.

Investigators from the Sikeston Department of Public Safety, with the Major Case Squad, developed a lead to an out-of-state suspect and identified 33-year-old Cornelius Martel David of Powder Springs, Georgia as the alleged shooter. David was located in DeKalb County, Georgia, taken into custody, charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm, and held on a no-bond warrant pending extradition to Missouri. A preliminary hearing in New Madrid County Circuit Court moved the case forward and David was ordered to stand trial. The victims and the suspect were known to each other; the specific motive remains under legal examination.

If anyone knew Kiara, Breana, or had information about the events at that residence on January 22, please come forward.