The U.S. Army will offer up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the Jan. 1 shooting death of Staff Sgt. Jessica Ann Mitchell, a 2009 Shawnee Heights High School graduate who had found a career as a drill sergeant in the military.
Mitchell, 30, was shot to death while on the road after leaving Quarter Sports Bar in San Antonio early New Years Day. Officers found her car on the side of Interstate 10, with Mitchell having suffered multiple gunshot wounds. She later died at an area hospital.
San Antonio Police Department investigators are looking for a suspect who was driving a possibly red vehicle that likely has damage to the passenger side of the car.
“We are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding Staff Sgt. Mitchell’s senseless murder and are asking the public to come forward if they have any information on this case, regardless of how insignificant it may seem,” Chris Grey, Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesperson told Stars and Stripes.
According to Mitchell’s obituary, she joined the military shortly after graduating high school in 2009, marring Michael Pruntey Jr. that same year. Before being stationed in San Antonio, she was stationed in Louisiana, Alaska and Germany.
Surviving Mitchell are Pruntey, her son Jaylen Pruntey, her mother Deborah Mitchell, father Mayo Mitchell, siblings Steven Mitchell and Ashley Mitchell, grandmother Judith Roettgen and second mother Angela Lee, as well as other extended family. She was preceded in death by her brother Justice Mitchell, who was killed in 2017.
A private funeral service Tuesday at the Kevin Brennan Family Funeral Home in Topeka will be livestreamed at 11 a.m. on the funeral home’s Facebook page.
Any information on Mitchell’s death may be submitted to any police department or to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command by phone at 210-221-1628 or on the group’s website.
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