Estela Abigail Rivera Vasquez, 35, was fatally shot inside her Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, home on the night of February 5, 2025. A native of Cunen El Quiche, Guatemala, she had moved to the United States seven years earlier, worked at Sarris Candies in Canonsburg and previously at Quality Pasta in Charleroi, and was the mother of three children, ages 11, 13, and 17.

On the evening of the shooting one of her children called 911 from a closet to report their mother had been shot. Police found Estela in the basement with a gunshot wound to the chest; she was taken to Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital and pronounced dead. Investigators recovered a firearm and several spent shell casings on the basement floor near where she was found.

Outside the home officers encountered Estela’s live-in boyfriend, Robert S. Chaplin, 34, who was intoxicated and said the shooting was an accident. Chaplin, from South Carolina, was taken into custody and charged with criminal homicide and held without bail at the Westmoreland County Prison.

Did anyone in Belle Vernon or Rostraver Township know Estela or have information about her relationship with Chaplin that could help the investigation?