Cierra Allen, a 30-year-old African American woman from Cincinnati, Ohio, was shot and killed on September 11, 2021. She was a mother of two and a law student at Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law. That evening she had been involved in a physical altercation with another woman at a youth football event and later went to that woman’s home in Walnut Hills, where the fatal shooting occurred.

The shooter said she acted in self-defense, claiming Cierra charged at her with a raised hand. The Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the case and concluded the shooting was an act of self-defense; no charges were filed. Cierra’s family and community mourned her loss and remembered her as a committed mother and advocate.

If anyone knew Cierra or witnessed what happened that night, please share information that might clarify the events leading up to the shooting.