A person of interest in the brutal New Year’s Eve slaying of a Henrico County woman last year was released from jail yesterday. Kayla C. Armstrong, 25, wrapped herself in her mother’s arms and smiled as well-wishers walked her from the Henrico jail yesterday evening, two hours after a judge found her not guilty of multiple charges linked to an attack on Keiona Cecilia Tiree Braxton.

Keiona Braxton’sfuneral is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m. in the March Funeral Home, 2110 E. Laburnum Ave. Henrico County search warrants suggest that 26-year-old Keiona Cecilia Tiree Braxton, three months pregnant according to her family, died a horrible death New Year’s Eve morning. While the state medical examiner’s office said yesterday that no official determination has been made as to what killed Braxton, documents tied to a search warrant suggest that the woman may have been shot, stabbed and left to perish in an arson fire.