Kenneth E. Koonrad, 34, of Montesano, Washington, was found dead on January 24, 2017, inside a Shelton residence alongside 32-year-old Tara M. Abernathy. Both victims suffered fatal gunshot wounds; the Mason County Coroner ruled Koonrad’s death a homicide from a single gunshot to the chest and Abernathy’s death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the head.

Friends said Koonrad and Abernathy had met only a few weeks before the killings. Authorities identified 33-year-old Jared Abernathy, Tara’s ex-husband, as the primary suspect after reports that he had made threats toward her following their 2015 divorce. A multi-agency manhunt tracked Jared Abernathy to a Motel 6 in Pendleton, Oregon, where a five- to six-hour standoff ended when officers found him deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 25, 2017. Koonrad is remembered as a kind, generous single father devoted to his 13-year-old son.

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