Man murdered 2 over woman victims allegedly killed: Cops

Brandon Lee Kenny (Washington Department of Corrections)

A 25-year-old man in Washington state was arrested over the weekend for allegedly executing two people in the middle of the street, both of whom were suspects in the disappearance of woman who went missing last month and is presumed dead.

Brandon Lee Kenny was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder in the slayings of 23-year-old Kiara Morgan-Weiland and 37-year-old Colton Russell, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Russell and Morgan-Weiland were both suspects in the November disappearance of 49-year-old Jannell Martensen, who was Russell’s ex-girlfriend, authorities said.

According to a probable cause affidavit, officers with the Spokane Police Department at about 11:16 p.m. on Dec. 8 responded to multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting at the intersection of Cleveland Avenue and Cuba Street in east Spokane, Washington. The callers all reported hearing multiple gunshots and several said that a female was lying in the street.

Upon arriving at the location, first responders found an adult male — later identified as Russell — in the driver’s seat of a silver minivan. He was bleeding from what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A female victim — later identified as Morgan-Weiland — was found lying in the street just in front of the van suffering from what appeared to be multiple stab wounds. She was also pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy determined that Russell suffered six gunshot wounds while Morgan-Weiland suffered about 51 separate stab wounds with “11 – 12 of those penetrating the body cavity to include both lungs, heart, and liver,” the affidavit states.

Authorities said inside the van they found blue pills that were likely fentanyl as well as bags of McDonald’s that appeared “fairly fresh inside the relatively clean van.”