On the morning of Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018, 56-year-old Jeffrey D. Nie was found with multiple gunshot wounds in an upstairs bedroom of his Munfordville, Kentucky, home and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Hart County Coroner. His wife, Barbara Nie, then 58, was also found in the bedroom with a gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital, then transferred to the University of Louisville Hospital in serious but stable condition.

Police arrested the couple’s 21-year-old daughter, Brina E. Nie, who lived in the same residence. She was charged in connection with her father’s death and her mother’s shooting; the shooting was reported to have occurred around 3:14 a.m. at the family’s G. Shelton Road home. Brina was described as a mother of two and an artist and was taken into custody by the Kentucky State Police shortly after her parents were discovered.

Court action followed the arrest; in May of the year after the shooting Brina Nie pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Jeffrey Nie’s death and to first-degree wanton endangerment for shooting Barbara Nie, and was sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison. Does anyone have information about the family or the events that night that could shed light on what led to this tragedy?