On the evening of November 6, 2020, Teresa Marie Alires, 39, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Tru by Hilton in Midvale, Utah, next to a WinCo Foods. Officers responding to calls of an assault with a weapon and reports of shots fired found Alires deceased in the lot and a 36-year-old man, Tyler Wade Shirreffs, seriously wounded inside the store; employees had applied makeshift tourniquets before emergency crews arrived.

A search warrant affidavit describes a volatile relationship among Alires, Shirreffs, and Shirreffs’ then-girlfriend. According to that affidavit, Shirreffs and his girlfriend were in a white 2005 Cadillac CTS when Alires approached, allegedly brandished a handgun, demanded money, and shot Shirreffs. A struggle followed, and Shirreffs reportedly took the gun and shot Alires. A weapon was recovered at the scene. Shirreffs, who was a parole fugitive at the time, was returned to Utah State Prison on a parole violation after hospital release; no criminal charges in the homicide have been filed publicly. Police asked to speak with a man and woman seen leaving on foot and the occupants of the white Cadillac.

If anyone saw the incident or recognizes the people who left on foot or the Cadillac’s occupants, please share what was seen.