‘Trying to help a fellow sailor’: Woman who tried to intervene in fight between wives shot dead after celebrating 28th birthday
A woman will spend nearly three decades behind bars after murdering a U.S. Navy sailor who intervened to stop a fight between the suspect and her wife.
Nildaliz Arline Flores-Roman, 27, was sentenced Friday to serve 28 years in prison. A Virginia jury convicted her of second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a murder for shooting and killing Pfc. Katrina Ann Anderson last year.
According to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, Anderson and Flores-Roman’s wife—both serving in the Navy and stationed on the USS Mahan—were out celebrating Anderson’s 28th birthday on March 15, 2024. Flores-Roman was also out that night with a different group of people. The two groups eventually ended up at the same location by the end of the night.
Flores-Roman, her wife, and Anderson then went back to the couple’s apartment in the 1700 block of East Little Creek Road. The wives began arguing in the parking lot, and Flores-Roman tried to pull her wife into the apartment. Anderson broke up the fight, and the trio went inside.
However, Flores-Roman was apparently not done with the altercation. She went into her bedroom, grabbed a gun, and as Anderson reached the front door, Flores-Roman fired a volley of shots. One of the shots hit Anderson in the chest.
“Ms. Anderson collapsed on the sidewalk just outside the apartment, and as she lay dying, Ms. Flores-Roman hit her once on the head with the gun before tossing it and walking away,” prosecutors said.
Flores-Roman’s wife immediately called 911, and paramedics pronounced Anderson dead at the scene. Police arrested Flores-Roman shortly thereafter.
In an interview with detectives, the suspect’s wife described an “emotionally abusive” marriage and said Anderson had tried to counsel her as a friend and co-worker.
After a two-day trial in June, jurors took just 20 minutes to convict Flores-Roman.
“Ms. Anderson, the victim of Ms. Flores-Roman’s crime, was a Good Samaritan trying to help a fellow sailor. She did not deserve to die,” Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi said in a statement.
“Most people who commit murder offer some kind of remorse. Had Ms. Flores-Roman shown any sign of being sorry for killing her, we would have recommended less time than we did. I mourn Ms. Anderson and extend my condolences to her family.”
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