Dominique Nicole Nikki Hurd was 19 and a student at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff when she was killed on December 13, 1998, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. A cheerleader and gospel choir member from Fort Worth, Texas, she was an honor student majoring in Mass Communication with a minor in Biology and had plans to attend medical school.

That evening Dominique and her boyfriend, Peter Robertson, were approached in a parking lot by 19-year-old Kenneth Williams. Williams offered to take their picture, then produced a revolver, forced them into their car, robbed them and drove them to a secluded area where he shot both. Dominique died of a gunshot wound to the head; Robertson survived and obtained help. Williams was arrested, convicted on multiple counts including capital murder, and originally given life without parole. He escaped the Cummins Unit shortly afterward, committed two further murders while fugitive, was recaptured and later received a death sentence. In 2005 he confessed to another murder from the same day he killed Dominique and was executed on April 27, 2017, after apologizing to victims’ families.

Does anyone have memories of Dominique from UAPB or Pine Bluff to share with her family or investigators?