On February 20, 2021, 30-year-old Tashianna Blake was killed in her Colorado Springs home in the 2000 block of Squawbush Ridge Grove. A 911 call placed at 12:51 A.M. by her husband, Dermot Andrew Blake, an active-duty Army sergeant stationed at Fort Carson, reported that he had shot his wife. Officers found Tashianna deceased and the couple’s two daughters, ages five and seven, physically unharmed in the residence.

Court documents and subsequent reporting describe a heated argument that escalated when Dermot Blake retrieved a gun and shot Tashianna multiple times; an autopsy confirmed she had been shot six times. The documents allege he forced her to apologize and then shot her in the head in front of the children. Dermot Blake, 33 at the time, was detained at the scene, later charged with first-degree murder and two counts of child abuse, and the children were placed with family.

The couple had previously filed for divorce in 2019, a case that was later dismissed. Did anyone in the neighborhood know the Blakes or see anything that night that could shed more light on what happened?