Authorities in Texas have been looking Friday for a lady accused of fatally capturing an elite bike owner after discovering the athlete had been romantically concerned together with her bike owner associate.
The U.S. Marshals Service stated it was searching for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 35, within the Might 11 killing of Anna Moriah Wilson, 25.
Austin police issued a murder warrant for Armstrong on Tuesday, the service stated.
The bike owner, often known as “Mo,” had traveled to Texas for a race in Hico, southwest of Fort Value, based on the biking outlet Velo Information.
A buddy of Wilson’s discovered her physique at an Austin residence on the evening of Might 11, Austin police stated in a press release. Wilson was pronounced lifeless shortly after 10 p.m.
Police initially stated she had been shot a number of instances inside the home in a killing that “doesn’t look like a random act.”
In accordance with an arrest affidavit obtained by NBC affiliate KXAN of Austin, Armstrong had been in a relationship with skilled bike owner Colin Strickland for roughly three years.
However throughout a break of their relationship, Strickland had begun seeing Wilson, the affidavit says, KXAN reported.
An unnamed buddy who reported being with Armstrong in January when she discovered of the connection stated Armstrong “turned livid and was shaking in anger,” based on the affidavit.
Based mostly on a search of Wilson’s cellphone, investigators stated messages indicated Wilson believed she was “nonetheless in a romantic relationship with Strickland though he was presently relationship Armstrong,” the affidavit says, based on KXAN.
Armstrong deleted her social media accounts and was final heard from on Might 13, the affidavit says, based on the station.
Strickland has not been accused of any wrongdoing within the case.
He didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark, however in a assertion earlier Friday to an Austin American-Statesman reporter, he stated he was “reeling from grieving Mo Wilson’s loss of life and from the info which have emerged throughout the investigation.”
“There isn’t any technique to adequately categorical the remorse and torture I really feel about my proximity to this horrible crime,” he stated within the assertion to the Statesman.”I’m sorry, and I merely can’t make sense of this unfathomable tragedy.”
Strickland added that he and Wilson had a “transient romantic relationship” from late October to early November final yr whereas Wilson was visiting Austin. That they had each lately ended earlier relationships, Strickland stated. He and Armstrong reconciled one month later.
“After our transient relationship in October of 2021, we weren’t in a romantic relationship, solely a platonic {and professional} one,” he stated, including: “Moriah and I have been each leaders on this lonely, area of interest sport of biking, and I admired her enormously and thought of her an in depth buddy.”
Velo Information described Wilson as a “dominant” mountain biking and gravel racer, profitable a number of races this yr and resigning her place at a motorcycle firm to pursue full-time racing.
She was anticipated to win the Gravel Locos race in Hico, the positioning reported.
