In the spring of 2017, 33-year-old Yasheeka Miles was found dead in her second-floor apartment on North Mountain Road in New Britain, Connecticut. Neighbors reported hearing a violent struggle on the night of April 7, followed by sudden silence. Police forced entry to a locked apartment and discovered Yasheeka lying face down in a pool of blood, with multiple gunshot wounds to her head and shoulder; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her two-year-old daughter was missing from the apartment, prompting an Amber Alert. The child was located safe with relatives in New York City the next morning. Attention quickly turned to Yasheeka’s estranged husband, Patrick Miles; he was located and arrested in West Springfield, Massachusetts and became the primary suspect.

Patrick Miles was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to 55 years, but the Connecticut Supreme Court later overturned that conviction because of improper prosecutorial comments about his post-arrest silence, leading to a retrial. A second trial in October 2025 ended in a mistrial when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict, leaving the case unresolved. If anyone has information about Yasheeka, her daughter, or the events in New Britain that night, please share what is known.