Cassandra Peña-Romero, a 27-year-old dispatcher at Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas, succumbed to her injuries on August 23, 2023, four days after being shot.
The incident occurred on Saturday, August 19, around 5:30 p.m., as Cassandra was leaving work from the MEMS dispatch center. Her estranged husband, Omar Peña-Romero, 23, who was also a former employee of MEMS, shot her in the neck in the parking lot. Before the shooting, Cassandra had sent
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