Community grieves, seeks answers 1 year after young woman's slaying

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By DaShawn Brown

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Plaza Midwood community is still seeking answers one year after a young woman was shot and killed.

Fresh flowers marked the spot where Ketie Jones was killed on Sunday.

Loved ones refreshed the memorial along Hamorton Place, near Central Avenue, along the sidewalk where the 26-year-old was killed.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Jones was walking home after a night out with friends when she was killed, but beyond that, few details have surfaced regarding the case.

Several Plaza Midwood community members, who never met Jones, are hoping an arrest is made in the case.

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"We all definitely miss her but we want to know why there haven't been any answers," Jones’s friend Phillip Gripper said.

"When that whole event happened, it took the breath out of everybody," Blake Barnes said.

Barnes is the owner of Common Market and said Jones was a regular customer.

Those who knew and loved Jones said they're upset about the lack of information to catch her killer.

"It's frustrating," Gripper said.

(Click PLAY to hear from Ketie's mother last year following her daughter's shooting death)

Late Monday afternoon, CMPD updated Channel 9 on the case.

They said since Jones was found shot and killed off the Plaza, they have actively worked leads, but come up with few answers.

"This case is wide open," Deputy Chief Jeff Estes said.  "There is usually someone who knows something that can help us, but for whatever reason, those people have up to this point remained silent."

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As they continue the search for Jones' killer, CMPD is also working 45 other unsolved murders from 2016 and 2017.

"The same difficulty, in this case, is the same difficulty we have in every unsolved case, it's that someone who knows something hasn't come forward," Estes said.

Those who knew Jones said they're holding onto hope for any bit of information about her death.

"There have been so many murders this year, but just a little tidbit of information would help," Barnes said.

"She was just a beautiful person and literally only brought positivity," Gripper told us. "It would at least help, it would at least give us you know, a little bit of peace."

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