Tonya Doreen Gillikin was a 30-year-old Enfield Police Department officer who was killed on March 15, 1999, in Enfield, North Carolina. That night she and another officer stopped a vehicle suspected in an earlier robbery; while the officers attempted to handcuff the driver he began to struggle and shot her in the head. The suspect fled but was later identified and arrested along with an accomplice.

The accomplice, then 18, was sentenced to 6 to 8 years and was released January 28, 2006. Gillikin was posthumously promoted to lieutenant and was the first female law enforcement officer to be murdered in North Carolina. Memorial wreaths and her inclusion in the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial have been noted in remembrance of her service.

If anyone knew Lieutenant Gillikin or has information about that night, please share what you remember.