Catherine Jones, 90, was found shot to death in her Highgate Avenue home in Buffalo on the morning of Sunday, November 21, 2021. Jones was living with dementia and had been the victim of a fatal gunshot to the chest. Police went to the residence after a 911 call for a domestic disturbance and encountered her 40-year-old granddaughter, Jamien Harris, at the front door. Harris, who served as Jones’s caregiver, was arrested at the scene for possession of an unregistered firearm and was treated from the start as a strong person of interest in the killing.

In November 2022 Harris pleaded guilty to two felony counts of criminal possession of a firearm and received five years probation. A grand jury later indicted Harris on second-degree murder, but a judge dismissed that murder charge on double jeopardy grounds. The Erie County District Attorney appealed, and an appellate court reinstated the second-degree murder charge; Harris is expected to face trial on the shooting death of her grandmother. Does anyone have information about Catherine’s last days or the events at the Highgate Avenue home?