Epri Nataye Cain, a 32-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in her Las Vegas apartment in the early morning of Mother’s Day, May 10, 2015. The shooting occurred about 3:45 a.m. in the 4800 block of Cleopatra Avenue. Cain was at home with a family member watching television when someone knocked. She opened the main door but kept the metal security door closed; after a conversation through the security door, an individual outside fired multiple shots through it, striking Cain. The shooter fled in a light-colored, four-door sedan with tinted windows driven by another man.

Responding officers found Cain with multiple gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators described the suspected shooter as a Black man wearing a white shirt and tan-colored shorts. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported no arrests and no identified suspects in the days after the killing, and the motive remains unclear. If anyone has information about that early morning at Cleopatra Avenue or the vehicle and men seen leaving, please share what is known.