Kaliah Ashante Harper, a Richmond Police Department officer, was shot and killed on November 24, 2006 while attending a funeral service in Fairfield, California. She had gone to the Fairfield Community Center to pay respects for two young boys who died in a traffic accident when her ex-boyfriend, Quartus Lee Hinton, reportedly ambushed her and shot her multiple times in the upper body and head.

A multi-agency manhunt led to Hinton’s arrest the next day in Vallejo. He was charged with murder and the special circumstance of lying in wait. At trial he claimed self-defense, alleging Harper reached for her gun; the jury did not accept that defense and convicted him of voluntary manslaughter. He received a 38-year sentence, the maximum for the conviction.

Harper was remembered as a rising star in the Richmond Police Department and her death drew widespread attention for its brutality and links to domestic violence. Does anyone have memories of Kaliah Harper or information about the events that night?