Alicia Quintana was 45 when she was shot and killed in Albuquerque on the evening of January 31, 2015. The confrontation began inside a TGI Friday’s near the Cottonwood Mall and continued into the restaurant parking lot, where Quintana was fatally shot during an argument with her boyfriend, Ernest Serna.

Family members described the relationship as abusive; they say Serna had been arrested twice for domestic violence during a six-month courtship and that Quintana had sought restraining orders. In the days after the shooting Serna was located, taken into custody and charged with an open count of murder. Relatives remembered Quintana as a woman with a wonderful smile who loved life and believe the killing was premeditated because Serna had allegedly threatened to kill her if she left him.

If anyone witnessed the argument at the restaurant or has information about the events that night, please share what was seen or heard.