Jackie Ehrlich was 7 years old in the summer of 1971 when her mother got the phone call at the beauty parlor. Ehrlich still hears her mother’s screams, “Is he dead?!! Is he dead?!!”

Stanley Kotler, Ehrlich’s father, was dead, killed on the afternoon of July 2, at Katz’ Market, his family’s store near Dupont Circle at 1269 23rd St. NW. The store had been robbed at gunpoint numerous times and a family friend recently had been killed in a similar robbery