A manhunt is underway for a Texas woman wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a professional cyclist who authorities say was once romantically linked to the suspect's boyfriend.
Austin police issued a homicide warrant on Tuesday for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 35, in the killing of 25-year-old Anna Moriah Wilson, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
"Members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force are actively conducting a fugitive investigation and pursuing leads on the whereabouts of Armstrong," the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement Friday.According to the affidavit in the warrant for Armstrong's arrest on a first-degree murder charge, Wilson was visiting Austin from San Francisco for a cycling race when her friend came home and found Wilson alone lying on the bathroom floor covered in blood.
Since then, Strickland told police he has had to change Wilson's name in his phone and delete text messages"to prevent Armstrong from finding them," the affidavit stated. Text messages from the night Wilson was killed showed that Strickland lied to Armstrong about his whereabouts"to hide he was with Wilson throughout the evening," the affidavit stated.
Two firearms that Strickland told police he had bought for himself and Armstrong were recovered at his and Armstrong's home in the wake of the shooting, according to the affidavit. Based on the shell casings found at the scene, the potential that one of the guns was involved in the homicide"is significant," the affidavit stated.
Wilson's death shocked the cycling community. The athlete had won several gravel and mountain bike races in the past two seasons and had recently quit her job to focus on racing, according to VeloNews, who interviewed Wilson days before she was set to compete in the 157-mile Gravel Locos in Hico, Texas on May 14.
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