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Kayla Koranda

Case from Pine Island, MN dated Jan 06, 2014

Victim Details

Kayla Koranda

Female

White / Caucasian

Pine Island

MN

2014-01-06

18

Kayla

Koranda

06/22/2026

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On a winter afternoon, January 6, 2014, the life of 18-year-old Kayla Jill Koranda, a female college freshman, was tragically cut short in what authorities would later describe as a murder-suicide. The incident unfolded in a heated pole shed on a property in New Haven Township, near Pine Island, Minnesota. Kayla, a graduate of Lourdes High School in Rochester and a liberal arts student at the University of Minnesota, had gone to visit a high school friend, 19-year-old Nicholas Bryan Roecker.
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  • Star Tribune: Olmsted Co. Sheriff: Victim, 19, in murder-suicide was trying to help friend
  • Kayla Koranda remembered as caring, driven teen - Post Bulletin
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