On August 31, 1984, 58-year-old Ebora Alexander was shot and killed inside her Los Angeles home during a mass shooting that also took the lives of her daughter, 25-year-old Dietra Alexander, and two grandsons, 6-year-old Damon Bonner and 12-year-old Damani Garner-Alexander. Attackers forced entry and opened fire; Ebora was shot while drinking coffee in the kitchen and the other victims were found dead in their beds. The assailants fled in a brown or maroon van.

Investigators concluded the house was targeted in error by members of the Rollin 60 Crips who believed rival gang members lived there. Tiequon Cox, then 18, was identified as one of the gunmen; Darren Charles Williams was later identified as the second shooter. Horace Edwin Burns, 20, acted as a lookout, and two women, Lisa Brown and Ida Moore, drove the getaway vehicle. Cox and Williams were sentenced to death and Burns received life without parole.

Anyone who knew the Alexanders or has information about the night of August 31, 1984, is asked to come forward.