How Can We Save A Woman Like Gina?
Remember some of the timelines and warning signs.
Gina Bryant was in an accelerated nursing program in Michigan. She had started dating a resident doctor, Justin W., about 11–12 months ago. They moved in together relatively fast. She apparently confessed to her sister and mom that he had been abusing her for many months, and a few weeks ago, they moved her out, seemingly under the cover of darkness. After moving her out, she was “safe” for a few weeks, but then she went home for lunch one day, he was apparently waiting for her, and he drove her from Michigan to La Salle, Illinois (his hometown), killed her at a gas station, left her body by the pumps (WTF?), then fled to Bettendorf, Iowa where cops got a hit on his license plate — and he killed himself in the car as they approached. So, ostensibly a murder-suicide that’s horrible on every level.
Just for context, this is even more horrific because of the distance traveled between all the locations in the story:
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