Keenya Nicole Cook, a 21-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot at her aunt’s home in Tacoma, Washington, on the evening of February 16, 2002. She had been changing her infant daughter’s diaper when someone knocked; when she answered the door she was struck by a single, fatal gunshot to the face. Her aunt returned to find Cook’s body just inside the open doorway and the infant unharmed on the changing table.

Months of investigation produced no clear motive until a connection to the D.C. Sniper case emerged. Cook’s aunt, Isa Nichols, had previously been associated with John Allen Muhammad and had sided with Muhammad’s ex-wife during a custody dispute, a link prosecutors say could explain why the aunt, not Cook, may have been the intended target. A .45-caliber handgun tied by ballistics to the fatal bullet had been loaned to Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and Malvo later confessed to shooting Cook, saying he acted to prove himself at Muhammad’s request.

Despite the confession and ballistic match, neither Muhammad nor Malvo were charged in Washington for Cook’s murder; prosecutors said separate prosecution was unlikely to increase punishment beyond what they already faced for other crimes. Does anyone have memories, details, or information about Keenya, her family, or that night that could shed more light on what happened?