Reports by CBS4 suggest that the teenagers’ bodies were discovered behind the counter inside the Subway restaurant. Investigators stated that both victims were shot by at least one unknown intruder. On Sunday, February 14, the anniversary of the Columbine students’ double murder, officials significantly upped the reward from $12,000 to $100,000 in the hopes that it will encourage anyone with information in the baffling cold case to finally come forward.
KMGH-Denver reported, that the two teenagers were students at Columbine High School, the very school where less than a year earlier 12 of their classmates and a teacher had been killed in a mass shooting. The high school sweethearts stayed together even through the traumatic time in their lives and were described as a happy young couple by family members. “Although they had just gone through the tragedy at the high school, they were coming through it so good and they were so happy. We just really felt like that might be the last hard thing that we went through," Stephanie’s mother, Kelly Grizzell said in 2017. The incident took place just 10 months after the mass shooting, just a few blocks from the high school. “The last thing I said to her was, ‘Goodnight. I love you,’” Kelly recalled. “I’ll never forget that.”