Sylvia Frasier was 53 and worked as an information assurance manager at Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. She held a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Strayer University and was remembered by family and friends for a bright smile and a kind, sweet nature; siblings described her as a jewel.

On the morning of September 16, 2013, she was one of twelve civilians killed in a mass shooting inside Building 197 at the Washington Navy Yard. The shooter, a lone gunman identified as Aaron Alexis, moved through the building armed first with a shotgun he had brought in and later a pistol taken from a victim; law enforcement officers confronted and killed him at the scene. No arrests were made in connection with Frasier’s death.

If anyone worked with Sylvia at the Naval Sea Systems Command or was at Building 197 that day and can share memories or information about her, please contribute.