A murder suspect accused of killing her mother is still in a Canadian jail as the extradition process continues.
Kristyna Keenan was shot and killed outside her State Road home in Ashtabula Township Jan. 11, 2024. Two days later, her daughter, Ashley Keenan, turned herself in to Canadian authorities.
Nicole Navas Oxman, a senior communications advisor for International Law Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Justice, said there is nothing new to report more than a year and a half since the process began.
“The Canadian extradition proceedings are ongoing and we have nothing to report,” Oxman said in an email.
In January, Oxman said, “As a matter of long-standing policy, the U.S. Department of Justice does not comment on extradition-related matters until a defendant is in the United States.”
According to a Canadian government website, there is a three-stage process that has to occur before a subject can be released to another country.
Ashley Ginette Keenan, 32, whose last known address was in Texas, was indicted in January 2024 on two counts of aggravated murder and one count of murder, unclassified felonies, and one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony, according to Ashtabula County Court records.
Former Ashtabula County Prosecutor Coleen O’Toole confirmed Ashley Keenan is the daughter of Kristyna Keenan.
At the time, Ashtabula County Sheriff William Niemi said the suspect waited in an adjacent parking lot and shot Keenan in the driveway of her home. Deputies arrived quickly, but Keenan was already dead.