'Good Samaritan' Navy Officer Tried to Stop a Fight Between Fellow Sailor and Her Wife. Then She Was Shot and Killed By KC Baker

A Virginia woman convicted of killing a fellow Navy sailor while she tried to intervene during a domestic dispute has learned her fate.

Nildaliz Flores-Roman, 27, was sentenced to 28 years in prison last week after she was convicted of second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission for murder in the 2024 shooting death of Petty Officer First Class Katrina Ann Anderson, 28, according to a release from the Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney’s office.

On March 15, 2024, Flores-Roman’s wife and Anderson, both sailors on the USS Mahan in Norfolk, were out with friends celebrating Anderson’s 28th birthday. 

Flores-Roman was out with a different group of friends. Later that night, the two groups ended up at the same spot in downtown Norfolk. 

Hours later, just after 2 a.m., when the three returned to Flores-Roman’s apartment, she and her wife began arguing in the parking lot of their apartment complex, according to the Commonwealth Attorney.

When Flores-Roman pulled her wife’s arm to try to force her inside the apartment, Anderson intervened, and she and Flores-Roman began fighting.

The fight ended and the three women went inside the apartment. But Flores-Roman was apparently still emotionally charged from the altercation. According to the Commonwealth Attorney, she went to her bedroom to get her handgun. 

As Anderson ran to the front door, Flores-Roman’s wife screamed at her to “run.” But it was too late: Flores-Roman fired multiple shots, including to the chest.

Anderson collapsed on the sidewalk just outside the apartment. “As she lay dying, Flores-Roman hit her once on the head with the gun before tossing it and walking away,” the Commonwealth Attorney said in the release. 

Flores-Roman’s wife called 911, and Ms. Anderson died shortly after medics and Norfolk Police arrived. Flores-Roman was arrested at the scene.

The wife told police that she was in an emotionally abusive marriage and that Anderson had counseled her and her wife before, according to the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office.

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Flores-Roman pleaded not guilty. At her trial in June, the jury deliberated for 20 minutes before finding her guilty.

“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 the release.

“Most people who commit murder offer some kind of remorse. Had Ms. Flores-Roman showed 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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