Horrific 911 calls captured Washington mother's final moments before shooting

Gloria Choi’s final plea to 911 came amid a collapse of warning signs that had already spanned counties, court orders and repeated calls for help. The 33-year-old Chehalis woman was killed on Jan. 2, 2022, near the 6100 block of 112th Street Southwest in Lakewood after what investigators described as a deliberate ambush.

In the 911 audio played in the new 48 Hours episode, Choi told the dispatcher she did not know where she was and was too scared to get out of her car. Then she shouted, "He’s got a gun!" before shots rang out. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled her death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds.

The episode, "The Love Bombing of Gloria Choi," aired Saturday night on CBS and Paramount+ and centered the case around a pattern of escalating harassment rather than a single moment of violence. CBS said Choi and her friends called Lakewood 911 four times in 48 hours before she was killed to report that an ex-boyfriend was stalking her. Choi had also obtained a domestic-violence no-contact order against William "Billy" Rickman after their breakup in late 2021.

Witness accounts and trial testimony painted a rapid, targeted attack. Greg Greer said Rickman pinned Choi’s vehicle, stood beside the driver’s side window and fired through the door and window. Reporting tied to the episode said Rickman fired nine .40-caliber bullets into the truck, while other coverage said Choi was shot 10 times. However counted, the barrage left no chance for escape.

The case has become a test of how law enforcement handles stalking that crosses jurisdictional lines. Reporting said Choi sought help from police in Pierce, Thurston and Lewis counties as the harassment escalated, and her legal team has alleged that repeated complaints did not draw a sufficient response. As of May 2026, a wrongful-death lawsuit against Lakewood and its police department remained unresolved.

Rickman was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder after a trial that began in November 2023 before a jury of nine men and three women. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Reporting also said he had prior California convictions, including domestic-violence offenses, two felonies and four misdemeanors dating from 1993 to 2009.

The episode featured interviews with Choi’s best friend Brieanna Eberly, friends Jacob Blue and Terry Estvold, eyewitness Greg Greer and former Pierce County prosecutor Coreen Schnepf. Together, their accounts frame Choi’s death as the end point of a long warning chain, one that exposed how quickly stalking can turn lethal when intervention comes too late.