Cheryl Ann Nici-O’Connell

Police Shot by a Mass Murderer: She Survived and the City’s Response Shocked Her. The phrase line of duty often feels abstract, until a single moment changes everything. For former Richmond, Virginia police officer Cheryl Ann Nici-O’Connell, that moment came in October of 1984, when a routine off-duty assignment turned into a life-altering ambush by a fugitive mass murderer.