On the morning of July 18, 2019, officers were flagged down by a neighbor and led to an apartment on Melrose Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where 38-year-old Kafena Russell and her 37-year-old brother Johnny Russell were found with fatal gunshot wounds. The apartment was near the Arkansas State University campus. Police opened a double-homicide investigation and quickly focused on Kafena’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Rhatez Demore Furlow. Court records say the violence followed turmoil the night before: Kafena had returned unexpectedly, found Furlow with another woman, told him to leave the apartment, and the shooting occurred later that night on July 17, 2019.

Police arrested Furlow soon after the bodies were found. A jury in Craighead County Circuit Court convicted him of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of committing a felony with a firearm; he was sentenced to a total of 150 years in prison, and the Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed that judgment on April 5, 2023. Does anyone have information about Kafena, Johnny, or the events that night that could help fill in unanswered details?