Tarika Wilson was a 26-year-old African-American woman shot and killed on January 4, 2008, during a police raid on her Lima, Ohio, home. Officers were targeting her boyfriend, Anthony Terry, on suspicion of drug dealing. Wilson, unarmed and holding her one-year-old son, took shelter in a bedroom with six young children when police forced entry. Officer Joseph Chavalia fired toward the bedroom after mistaking the sound of other officers’ gunfire for hostile shots; Wilson was killed instantly and her son was wounded.

The shooting touched off protests and heated local debate about race relations in Lima, where about one in four residents is black. An all-white jury acquitted Chavalia of criminal charges in August 2008; he returned to the force but was barred from patrol duty. Wilson’s family later settled a wrongful death suit against the city for $2.5 million, and her mother and sisters have raised her orphaned children.