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Police Continue to Analyze Evidence in Lululemon Attack as Family Mourns Victim

Funeral services are planned for Jayna Murray this weekend in Texas.

Police are still in the process of analyzing evidence recovered at the Lululemon store, the scene of a during which two masked men two female employees – one fatally.

Jayna Murray, 30, was killed, and another 27-year-old victim is recovering.

 “This is a very serious crime,” said Capt. Paul Starks, a spokesman for Montgomery County Police. “We have a lot of people looking at it, and we have a lot of material and sources of potential evidence to review and prioritize and see if it’s of any value. We are asking for a little understanding as we analyze what we have and then go forward.”

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Starks said police canvassed businesses in the area Sunday to see if anyone had any surveillance footage that could be of use for the investigation. He said he believed that police had recovered some surveillance footage from the area, but it remained unclear how helpful it would be to the investigation.

The Lululemon store remains off-limits to the public, and police have not yet turned the store back over to the Lululemon corporation, Starks said.

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Police haven’t ruled out that the crime may have been a random one. Though it remains unclear what the suspect’s motive may have been, “these two suspects came to the area with some kind of preparation. They brought masks and gloves, and they used them,” Starks said.

Meanwhile, friends and family are beginning to plan memorial services and tributes for Murray. Funeral services are planned to take place Friday in Texas, where her family lives. 

Visitation will be held in the chapel at Forest Park the Woodlands in the Woodlands, Texas, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, according to a memorial Facebook page set up in Murray’s honor. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at Forest Park the Woodlands at 10 a.m. Saturday. Condolences for the family can be left online at the funeral home’s website.

The family is also in the process of setting up a memorial foundation for Murray, according to the Facebook page, entitled “In Memory of Jayna Murray.” Locally, is also being planned in Murray’s memory.

“The best and the brightest has left us with a hole that will not be filled,” wrote one family member on the memorial Facebook page. “We celebrate you, Jayna, but we are devastated without you.”


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