Mitzi Flournoy, a 57-year-old White/Caucasian woman from Anacortes, Washington, died on March 10, 2026, after she was shot multiple times inside a residence in the 1400 block of K Avenue. Police were sent to the home at approximately 6:24 a.m. after receiving a gunshot-related 911 call. When officers arrived, they found Flournoy and a man dead inside the residence, both with apparent gunshot wounds. Authorities quickly indicated there was no continuing danger to the surrounding community, and the investigation began to point toward a domestic murder-suicide rather than an attack involving an unknown person who had fled the scene.
As investigators processed the home, the Anacortes Police Department said the evidence indicated that the man had shot Flournoy and then turned the gun on himself. Other people who were inside the residence were not physically harmed. Police temporarily closed K Avenue between 14th and 15th streets while detectives and forensic personnel worked at the scene. The Washington State Patrol Crime Lab assisted with the investigation, and the Skagit County Coroner's Office responded to examine and identify the deceased.
The Skagit County Coroner's Office later formally identified the homicide victim as Mitzi Flournoy. The examination determined that she died from multiple gunshot wounds, and her manner of death was officially classified as homicide. The second person found dead in the residence was identified by the coroner as Jimmy Flournoy. His cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the chest, and his manner of death was classified as suicide. He was 61.
The police investigation therefore treated Jimmy Flournoy as the suspected shooter in Mitzi Flournoy's killing. Public reporting described the deaths as an apparent or likely murder-suicide, with investigators believing that he fatally shot Mitzi before killing himself. Early reports did not immediately release the names of either person while authorities worked to confirm identities and notify family members, although local property records and neighbors had connected the residence to the Flournoy family. The coroner's subsequent findings provided official confirmation of the identities and established that Mitzi's death was a homicide while Jimmy's was a suicide.
Because the suspected killer died at the scene, there was no arrest in connection with Mitzi Flournoy's homicide. There are no publicly reported criminal charges, prosecution, trial, or conviction arising from her death, and online reporting reviewed for the case does not identify any additional suspects or alleged accomplices. The available evidence released publicly points to a closed-circle domestic shooting in which the person suspected of killing Mitzi died immediately afterward, leaving no surviving homicide defendant to arrest or prosecute.
