On October 17, 2022, a welfare check at an apartment in the 8700 block of Chestnut Circle in the Santa Fe Hills community led officers to a double homicide. Neighbors alerted police after mail and packages accumulated at the doorstep; at about 1:00 p.m. officers entered the unit with a building manager and found 33-year-old Chantell Gipson and her 26-year-old cousin Austin Scott dead in separate bedrooms from gunshot wounds. Emergency responders pronounced both victims deceased at the scene.

Witnesses told detectives Gipson had been in a relationship since July 2021 with a man named Glenn A. Pulluaim II. Forensic testing matched Pulluaim’s DNA to spent shell casings recovered near the bodies, and investigators determined the shooter left in a vehicle belonging to one of the victims; that vehicle was later recovered. Court records show Pulluaim had a prior homicide-related conviction from 2013, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and was released from a seven-year sentence in 2020. In December 2022 the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Pulluaim with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action, and he surrendered to authorities on December 29, 2022.

Did anyone in the Santa Fe Hills area know Chantell or Austin and have information about who may have had access to their apartment that week?