Ill. Mom Was Interviewed for TV News Piece About Violence Against Black Women. Weeks Later, She Was Killed

Sierra Jamison, 30, was strangled to death outside her Chicago home, where she lived with her 6-year-old son. It was not the first time she had been attacked

When Sierra Jamison, 30, was attacked with a knife in a recent attempted carjacking in Chicago, she spoke with CBS2 reporter Dorothy Tucker for an investigation into violence against Black women.

But before the segment even aired, Jamison was attacked a second time — this time strangled to death outside her home Monday night, according to the Chicago Police Department.

Lawrence Curtis Boyle, 63, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, according to the police department’s press release. Boyle, who was arrested Wednesday and remains in custody, was due in court Friday for a detention hearing, police said.

It's not immediately clear if he has entered a plea or retained an attorney.

Jamison's family was inside the home when she was attacked, and her aunt, Sadina Jamison, CBS2 that she knew her accused attacker as a friend.

“This is someone she was comfortable around,” Sadina said. “This is someone she trusted so she had no reason to fear.”

Jamison, who had recently celebrated her 30th birthday, was a phlebotomist who planned to soon start nursing school, her mother told ABC7. She was also the primary caregiver to her 6-year-old son, who has autism, and who, Jamison told CBS2 before her death, had had an open-heart surgery.

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In the interview, which CBS2 has partially aired in connection with her death, Jamison recalls being accosted by a man trying to steal her Jeep Wrangler, which she described as “something just for myself because I know how hard I worked for it, I know how many sacrifices I've done for my family, my son.”

She added of fighting back against her carjacker: “I'm not fixing to let this young man – with a knife at that – take anything I work hard for away from me."

Jamison told Tucker, the reporter, that other women who saw her in distress came to her assistance, and, ultimately, the man did not get away with her vehicle.

Since Jamison's death, Tucker, in a sit-down interview at the CBS station, reflected on her series of interviews with Jamison before her death.

“She wanted to be able to say, ‘Let me tell people what it's like to be a Black woman today, and fearful so many times,'” Tucker, who is also a Black woman, said, adding that Jamison's death was “the example,” in demonstrating “the importance of us doing the story. To talk about what happens to Black women.”

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