On April 3, 2020, 31-year-old Marlane Christina King was found dead inside her Colonial Beach, Virginia, home on Second Street after a welfare check prompted police to secure a search warrant. Officers discovered King on the second floor with multiple gunshot wounds; an autopsy found three gunshot injuries, including one to the head.

Martin Edenilson Flores, who lived with King, initially denied officers entry and later told investigators King had taken her own life. Evidence contradicted that claim: investigators say Flores removed spent cartridges from the revolver and replaced them with unfired bullets, and an informant later reported Flores admitted shooting King because he felt disrespected. Flores, 41 at arrest, was charged and later convicted of first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and shooting into an occupied dwelling; in March 2022 a judge imposed a 73-year sentence with 23 years suspended, for an active 50-year term.

Did anyone in Colonial Beach know King or have information about her relationship with Flores?