On January 2, 2020, 27-year-old George Miles Kirksey and 22-year-old Alicia Lyn Roman were found inside a room at the Hotel at Waterwalk in downtown Wichita, both having sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics arrived shortly after 12:20 a.m.; neither victim could be saved and both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators later identified Roman’s ex-boyfriend, Kyle DelShawn Young, as the primary suspect. Court documents allege Young went to the couple’s hotel room, entered through an unlocked door and opened fire. The day before the killings he had reportedly confronted Roman during New Year’s celebrations, holding a gun to her head and choking her.

Young was located in Mexico after several months and brought back to Kansas to face charges. In October 2023 he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree premeditated murder; in January 2024 a Sedgwick County judge imposed two consecutive life sentences with parole eligibility barred for 100 years. Did anyone who knew George or Alicia see them in Wichita around New Year’s, or have information about the events at the hotel?