After investigating a number of deaths from Might 21, detectives have been capable of hint the connection tying all of them collectively, and it was purportedly the person behind the set off, 37-year-old Kevin Andrew Akins.

Police grew to become concerned on the night Monday, Might 23, after the person’s spouse, Rebeca Nicole Akins, 35 (above proper), failed to indicate up for work for 3 days straight. It was her employer who requested police to conduct a welfare test.

“After being unable to get anybody to return to the door, officers have been let into the residence by house workers and found the lady’s physique with an obvious gunshot wound to the top,” police said in a press launch.

In a GoFundMe arrange by Emily Lunden, that claims to be on behalf of the sufferer’s sisters, they wrote that “Nicole was tragically taken away from us by the person she had cherished for over half of her life. This has damaged all of us past phrases. That’s all I’ll say on that matter.”

She went on so as to add that because of their 20-year relationship, “all of her financials have been tied up in his.” They wrote that they’re looking for to lift funds “to provide her a service that she deserved, celebrating her kindness, her happiness, and her unwavering love.”

CCTV footage reviewed by detectives confirmed the suspect leaving her house at roughly 6 a.m. on Wednesday. After Nicole’s demise, police imagine that Kevin drove in his automotive 4 miles throughout city to the to the house of his girlfriend Cindel Mae Rhoden, 33 (above left), who was pregnant together with his baby. There, he purportedly shot and killed her, after which himself.

In line with the police press launch, after the invention of Nicole’s physique, they have been capable of observe the actions of Akin’s automobile, which introduced them to Rhoden’s house advanced. It was whereas they have been awaiting a search warrant to enter her house that they watched as one other man used a key to realize entry.

It was her stepfather, who was going to test on her after not listening to from her for a couple of days, solely to seek out her and one other man deceased inside. He stepped outdoors and instantly referred to as 911.

Rhoden’s household has additionally purportedly arrange a GoFundMe, established by Ashley Barker, the place it’s said that not solely had she simply found she was 5 months pregnant with a child boy, however she was additionally the mom of two younger daughters.

“Cindel was taken from us in a mindless act of violence,” the GoFundMe reads, including that she “was in a relationship with a person who was married to his estranged spouse and he or she fell sufferer of manipulation.”

Talking with native ABC affiliate WJCL, Rhoden’s aunt, Lynn Barker, mentioned, “She took individuals at their phrase. That was her mistake. However it does not imply she deserved or requested or put herself within the place for this to occur.”

Of their GoFundMe assertion, Rhoden’s household mentioned that Akin “in the end took the cowards approach out and took his personal life. Three harmless (4 when you depend the unborn) lives have been misplaced in a single day, abandoning shock, grief, and two little ladies who now face a future with out their mom.”

The household is elevating funeral funds in addition to funds for the longer term care of the sufferer’s daughters.

A doable motive for the killings has not been revealed.