Shereena Ann Byington Webster, a 36-year-old teacher and mother from Amarillo, Texas, was shot to death in her home on August 18, 2022. Her 5-year-old daughter found her body and alerted the child’s grandmother, who called police. Shereena taught at Oakdale Elementary and South Georgia Elementary and had recently become the High Impact Tutoring Learning Leader for Region 16.

Investigators determined Shereena’s ex-boyfriend, Erik Mitchell Rivas, broke in through the back door and shot her multiple times; home security footage was cited at trial showing the break-in. The prosecution said she suffered eight gunshot wounds and three lacerations to the back of her head while defending herself. Rivas was arrested near Dallas the day after the killing and later convicted by a Randall County jury of capital murder.

Family and friends have held memorial events, including a balloon release on what would have been her 38th birthday.