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Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price, 31, was killed on September 14, 2003, in Compton, California. A nurse who also worked as a personal assistant to her half-sisters Venus and Serena Williams, Price was sitting in her SUV with her boyfriend outside a house later identified as a crack house when members of the South Side Compton Crips opened fire, reportedly mistaking their vehicle for that of rival gang members. She was struck in the head and died after being taken to a nearby hospital.

Investigators arrested Robert Edward Maxfield in connection with the shooting. His first two trials ended in mistrials (the first jury split six for acquittal, five for guilt, one undecided; the second ended 11-1 for conviction). On March 22, 2006, the day before a third trial, Maxfield pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years. A separate defendant accused of firing a handgun had murder charges dismissed after the first trial when authorities concluded he did not cause the fatal wound.

Who in Compton at that time might remember the scene outside that house or the events of that night?