On the morning she died, Katrina Price sat in the living room of the beige brick Nacogdoches apartment she shared with her younger sister, Lucy, and balanced a shotgun on her lap. What happened in the next hour is still being investigated, though the Nacogdoches police said they believe it led to a suicide. Detectives are trying to determine how Katrina Price got the shotgun. They are awaiting final autopsy results. They haven't given an account of the morning or revealed the contents of a note Price left for the family.
Nobody knows why it happened.
Price's friends say they never saw her smoke, drink much or use drugs. They didn't see her with a boyfriend. They never saw her handle a gun. Whimpering, tears and sighs breaking apart her words, Katrina Price was having the lowest and darkest moments of her life. She wasn't specific.