just thought I'd circle back on this since I know you all were concerned.
the article above has been updated since the original posting. Looks like her boyfriend killed her then killed himself. I'm not really in the mood to post a pic of him yet, but I'm sure the final articles will have proper headshots. I never met him, but he certainly looked like an "ok" brotha (yea, he was a black guy) in their pictures.
Still not 100% sure that it's a murder-suicide case (in the article the police didn't confirm anything but said, "you can draw your own conclusions" or something to that effect), but that seems to be the position the police have taken. I assume the last relative they're trying to contact is from the boyfriend family.
In the last picture I see of them on Facebook from November, they look pretty happy. But pictures can often lie, and sometimes relationships have a way of suddenly turning quite bitter and very scary. Most often around the holidays, for whatever reason. Shit feels like a crapshoot and you just have to trust your senses hope that the significant other you've chosen doesn't reveal themselves to be a goddamn psycho. I'm not used to seeing brothas do the murder-suicide thing.