Post by Scumhunter on Dec 18, 2020 3:51:58 GMT -5
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From news-press.com:
Two years after a mother of four was shot and killed in front of her Lehigh Acres home, family gathered at her grave in Fort Myers Cemetery on Thursday in hopes of keeping her story alive.
As balloons floated toward the heavens, Trenesa Roberts' family told her they love her and miss her. All they hope for now is that her killer is found and brought to justice.
On Dec. 10, 2018, Roberts, 39, was leaving her home in the 2000 block of Quentin Avenue South on her way to work as a Lee County School District bus monitor. At 6:30 a.m., an unknown assailant shot her, leaving her for dead in her yard.
Roberts' four daughters, now 24, 21, 18 and 17, were not at home. Two were working, one was with her father and another was with Roberts' mother.
The only one inside the home was her Chihuahua Juvi, who Roberts and family called the son she never had. Sharlonda Wilson, Roberts' sister, believes someone must have heard something because Juvi would have been barking like crazy.
Juvi's new home is now with Roberts' mother Wilhemaine Guyton.
Trenesa Roberts, 39, was killed in front of her Lehigh Acres home on Dec. 10, 2018. Her case is still active and investigators continue to search for her killer.
Investigators have had limited information given to them and they continue to search for who is responsible.
"This is still a very open and active case," Trish Routte, manager with Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers said. "We are still asking for people to come forward with information who perhaps chose not to speak with detectives at the time of her murder."
Wilson said she still has faith in the Lee County Sheriff's Office and with a recent break in the 4-year-old Club Blu shooting case, it showed her their is still hope.
"It will be solved, but it is all in God's timing," Wilson said.
On Thursday, Wilson along with her mother Guyton, grandmother Evaline Johnson, niece Janeria Johnson and uncle Willie Oliver gathered at Roberts' grave, where they cleaned the stone, left flowers and decorations, and released balloons.
Sharlonda Wilson with her four nieces, Trenesa Roberts' daughters. Roberts, 39, was killed in front of her Lehigh Acres home on Dec. 10, 2018. Her case is still active and investigators continue to search for her killer.
"It still feels so unreal," Wilson said as she placed seashells along her sister's grave.
They just want to know who took a piece of their family.
Although the family doesn't know who is responsible, Wilson said there was something going on in her sister's life in the days before her murder.
Roberts was at Guyton's house, like she typically was every Sunday. She told her mom she had to tell her something, but ended up saying she would tell her the next day. Roberts never got the chance.
Wilson believes whoever it was that shot her sister must have known. Roberts had just recently moved into that duplex and unless the person followed her, it had to have been someone she knew.
The whole circumstance seemed too perfect to Wilson. She believes the person knew that Roberts' daughters wouldn't be home, knew where she lived and knew when she left for work.
Wilson was always her sister's protector, but she said her sister must have been protecting them from something.
Roberts was a hardworking mother whose priority was family, Wilson said. She was also a "little comedian" who brought joy and laughter.
Guyton misses seeing her daughter's smile and having her come over her house. They were a close family who would get together every weekend.
Now, every Sunday, Guyton and Wilson go to Roberts' grave to keep it tidy and to talk to their missed daughter and sister.
"They should be putting me away, not me putting her away," Guyton said.
Wilhemaine Guyton, the mother of Trenesa Roberts arranges and cleans up her head stone at the Fort Myers Cemetery in Fort Myers on the two year anniversary of her death Thursday, December 10, 2020. Roberts was shot and killed in Lehigh on December 10, 2018. She was 39. Her killer is still at large.
She said every night she prays that they find out who took her daughter's life and as much as she misses her, she knows Roberts is always in her heart.
The family continues to keep Roberts' story alive and hopes that with continued news coverage and the new Crime Stoppers billboard someone will come forward with information.
"She's not here now, so we are her voice," Wilson said.
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In November, Crime Stoppers put up a billboard with Roberts' photo asking for people to contact them with information about her death. The billboard in on Lee Boulevard near the area Roberts was killed.
In November, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers put up a billboard asking the publics help in finding Trenesa Roberts' killer. Roberts was shot and killed in Lehigh Acres on Dec. 10, 2018.
Officials ask anyone with information about Roberts' death to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477) or online at www.southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com or on the P3Tips mobile app. All callers will remain anonymous and we are offering a $3,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in her case, Routte said.
"We know that people’s perspectives change over time, people’s relationships change over time, and perhaps folks who were in the know when this happened will have had a change of heart since then and will seize this moment to come forward and do the right thing for Trenesa and her family," Routte said.
www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/14/sister-trenesa-roberts-says-fatal-shooting-case-still-unsolved/6498743002/
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