LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — A man is set to be sentenced next month for killing a Liberal woman whose death initially appeared to be a suicide.

The High Plains Daily Leader reports that Foster Everette was convicted Thursday in Seward County District Court of second-degree murder in the January killing of 31-year-old Andrea Garrison. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 4.

Liberal Police Capt. Pat McClurg said in a news release that police responded Jan. 2 to a possible suicide. Garrison was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy was completed Jan. 5.

McClurg said there were “suspicious circumstances.” He said that after talking to witnesses, conducting search warrants and collecting evidence, investigators determined Garrison was the “victim of foul play.”