On the morning of July 3, 2021, 21-year-old Kayla Marie Kulow was brought to the ambulance bay at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington, with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head. The person who left her at the hospital, later identified as her boyfriend Edward Jerome Donelan, fled immediately. Kayla, a mother to a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, was transferred to Tacoma General Hospital and died of her injuries on July 8, 2021.

Investigators determined the shooting likely occurred in the Midland or Parkland area where the couple lived and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department took over the case. Donelan gave conflicting accounts, first telling a medic he had just returned home to find Kayla injured and later claiming gang members had shot her. Detectives found no evidence at the location he described, and a friend later told police Donelan had confessed. He was arrested in September 2021 and charged with second-degree murder; court filings alleged the gun discharged during an argument as Donelan took a pistol from Kulow.

The Pierce County medical examiner later ruled Kayla’s manner of death undetermined. Does anyone have information about Kayla’s life in Midland or Parkland, or about the days leading up to July 3, 2021?