On the evening of February 14, 2016, police in Greenwood, Mississippi, responded to reports of gunshots on South Avenue and found 22-year-old Black woman Katja Allen with multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to the University Medical Center in Jackson for emergency care and died of those injuries just over a month later.

Statements Allen gave to law enforcement before she died identified her boyfriend, Generio Harris, as the person who came to the residence, demanded she leave with him, and shot her multiple times. A witness who had hidden in a closet called police and later officers found Harris trying to put Allen into his vehicle to take her to a hospital.

Charges were initially for attempted first-degree murder; after Allen’s death the charge was upgraded to first-degree murder. In July 2017 Harris, then 25, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in LeFlore County Circuit Court and received a 30-year sentence with no possibility of early release or parole.

If anyone knew Katja Allen or has information about the events that night, please share what you can.