Rose Marie ’Rosie’ Harris, 54, was fatally shot in her Salt Lake City Capitol Hill home on December 17, 2016. Police were called to perform a welfare check and found Harris dead. The woman who lived with her, 53-year-old Sue Mary Hickman, made immediate admissions to the shooting to a dispatcher and reportedly repeated those statements to others and to officers. The two were described as partners who cohabited.

Hickman was arrested and charged in Harris’s death and ultimately tried on a murder charge. In March 2019 a jury convicted her of the lesser included offense of manslaughter, finding she had acted under extreme emotional distress. A judge sentenced Hickman to one to 15 years in prison and recommended she serve the full term without credit for time already spent in custody. Harris, born May 4, 1962, in Logan, Utah, was remembered by family as intelligent, funny, tender and vulnerable.