On December 10, 2021, 28-year-old Katrina LeeAnn Dudley was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound at her home on Hummingbird Lane in Natural Bridge, Virginia. A 911 call around 12:30 p.m. came from the mother of Dudley’s boyfriend, Jonathan Armstrong Watkins, who reported that Dudley had shot herself while Watkins tried to take the gun from her. Deputies from the Rockbridge County Sheriff’s Department discovered Dudley deceased on arrival.

Investigators focused on 34-year-old Watkins as the primary suspect after evidence at the scene and the medical examiner’s findings indicated Dudley had been shot in the back of the head, a wound the chief medical examiner described as consistent with homicide. Watkins was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a felon, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and shooting within an occupied dwelling. A pretrial motion to suppress statements was denied after the prosecution presented extensive evidence including a lengthy investigative interview recording.

Does anyone have information about Dudley’s last known movements or contacts that could help clarify what happened that afternoon?