On the evening of February 13, 2021, a dispute over a political yard sign in Big Lake, Washington, escalated into deadly violence. Thirty-two-year-old Kamran Cohee, a Caucasian female, was shot in the head and found deceased in a driveway after an encounter that began when her boyfriend, Joshua Tryon, took a Loren Culp for Governor sign from John and Angela Conijn’s yard. Accounts differ about what happened next, but the confrontation involved a physical altercation between Tryon and John Conijn and, according to John Conijn, Cohee and Tryon then battered the Conijns’ front door with a wheelbarrow.

Angela Conijn, 55 at the time, emerged from the house armed and fired, striking Cohee. Angela Conijn was arrested and charged with second-degree murder; John Conijn was charged with fourth-degree assault for his part in the fight. Angela Conijn’s defense said she acted in self-defense. The jury in the murder trial ultimately could not reach a unanimous verdict, producing a mistrial in March 2025.

Does anyone have information about the events that night or about Kamran Cohee’s movements before she arrived at the Conijns’ home?