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Texas police are hunting for a 34-year-old yoga teacher accused of shooting dead the leading U.S. gravel cyclist, who had a brief relationship with her boyfriend.
Kaitlin Armstrong has not been seen since May 13 - two days after the murder of Moriah Wilson, 25.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Armstrong, a yoga teacher, who remains on the run and has deleted all her social media accounts.
Armstrong's boyfriend Colin Strickland, who like Wilson was a professional cyclist, had a brief romantic relationship with Wilson in October, when he and Armstrong - his girlfriend of three years - were on a break.
They got back together shortly after, and Armstrong found out in January about the one-week dalliance.
The Austin American Statesman reported that Armstrong 'became furious and was shaking in anger,' according to a tipster who spoke police.
Moriah Wilson, the leading gravel cyclist in the U.S., was found shot dead on May 11 in an Austin apartment, before a competition
Kaitlin Armstrong, a 34-year-old yoga teacher, lived with cyclist Colin Strickland (right). The pair have been together for three and a half years. Armstrong has not been seen since May 13
Armstrong told the tipster that she wanted to kill Wilson and that she had either recently purchased a firearm or was going to, according to the affidavit, obtained by Fox 7 Austin.
Strickland told police that he purchased two 9mm handguns for him and Armstrong around this time.
Wilson was shot multiple times with a 9mm handgun, according to the affidavit.
APD tested Armstrong's handgun and found that the weapon was the same firearm used in Wilson's death based on ballistic evidence.
On the evening of May 11 - the day after Wilson had arrived in town, following her victory in the 222km Belgian Waffle Ride in California - Wilson and Strickland went for a swim at Deep Eddy, a famous Austin municipal swimming pool.
Strickland, who is sponsored by Red Bull, and Wilson went for dinner at Pool Burger after their swim.
He walked her back to the Austin apartment at 8:30pm.
Wilson and Strickland on May 11 went for a swim at this municipal pool, Deep Eddy
Strickland, sponsored by Red Bull, is a gravel racing champion cyclist
Armstrong's SUV was seen driving by shortly after, with the footage captured on a neighbor's Ring camera.
Armstrong did not arrive back at the house she shared with Strickland until 9:20pm, he told police.
Strickland on Friday issued a statement, and insisted his relationship with Wilson was 'platonic and professional'.
He wrote: 'There is no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime.'
He said he was cooperating fully with the police.
'I admired her greatly, and considered her a close friend,' he wrote.
'I am deeply grieving
