- “But when we found the girl? His sister? I think that's what pushed Zabaleta over the edge.”
- —Captain David Anderson
Susan Alexandra Shepard was a 14-year old girl living on Mindoir in the Attican Traverse. She was the younger sister of Jack Shepard, the galaxy's first human Spectre.
She was decapitated by the pirate lord Skeev during his infamous raid on Mindoir. Lieutenant Zabaleta was the one who found her body, and it caused him to develop post-traumatic stress disorder as a result.