UNSOLVED: Who killed Charlotte’s Ketie Jones?

From the surveillance video and Google maps, I’m observing that Katie walked 20 concrete squares down The Plaza in 24 seconds, which I’m calculating to be a walking pace of .8333 squares per second (20 squares /24 seconds = .8333). Also, after turning left on Hamorton Place, there are 20 concrete squares to get to the start of the entrance of the Berryhill Realty driveway that Katie passed away within. We can see Katie turned left at Hamorton Place at 02:47:14 a.m.. We can therefore calculate that if she continues walking at the same pace down Hamorton without stopping, she will arrive at the start of the driveway entrance of Berryhill Realty 24 seconds later at 02:47:38 a.m. (02:47:14 a.m. + 24 Seconds of walking). Per local homicide detective Shana Isenhour as interviewed on Crime Watch Daily, it appears Katie was located approximately a few steps into the Berryhill Realty driveway after she had entered the driveway near the start of the driveway entrance (seemingly as soon as she could turn left into it), which we may estimate to be approximately another two seconds of time passing after she arrived at the front of the driveway entrance 02:47:40 a.m. (02:47:38 a.m. calculated normal Hamorton walk arrival to front of driveway entrance + 2 more seconds to turn left into Berryhill driveway and walk for a few steps while presumably being shot at). The significant thing here is we see the suspect’s vehicle had driven past Katie and the driveway and come to a parked state at exactly 02:47:40 a.m., the same exact time estimated for Katie to fall from the attack and be in the place she was located in.

Based on Katie’s calculated walk location at the driveway entrance at 2:47:38 a.m. (as shown on surveillance camera footage), and based on Katie becoming frightened and turning left into Berryhill driveway and walking for an estimated 2 seconds before collapsing, and based on the suspect’s vehicle seen on video parking two seconds later at 2:47:40 a.m. past the Berryhill driveway, and staying parked for 17 seconds before backing away:

–SCENARIO ONE (IF ONLY ONE ASSAILANT & SHOTS FIRED BEFORE PARKING): In this scenario, shooter would also be the vehicle’s driver. In order to fit with calculated timing, the driver would have had passenger windows rolled down and fired shots through passenger window at Katie at 2:47:38 a.m. at the earliest, while driving past Katie/driveway and before pulling forward into surveillance video and parking at 2:47:40 a.m.. For this scenario to work, the shooting would have occurred while Katie had at least reached the front of driveway. Perhaps the first shot(s) were misses and would have frightened Katie into turning left into driveway, or perhaps she was struck but was able to take a couple steps before a bullet caused her to collapse at approximately 02:47:40 a.m. (while at the same time the suspect is parking the vehicle as we see in surveillance). Because Katie became fearful and turned left dashing into driveway to get away as she was shot, this could explain the blunt force trauma to the left side of her body as that side likely hit the ground while dashing left into driveway and then falling. Also of note here, when the perpetrator pulled forward and parked, the victim would no longer be within perpetrator’s view because she turned left into driveway and would have been in driveway obscured by bushes from perpetrator’s viewpoint. Perhaps during the 17 seconds the vehicle was parked, the driver was disoriented from doing the gunshots, or perhaps the driver got out of vehicle and walked back to driveway to make sure the victim had been shot, and then returned to vehicle and backed away. This scenario seems somewhat possible, although I have doubts as to whether a single driver would have been able to approach, shoot, and park within this tight time frame.

–SCENARIO TWO (IF ONLY ONE ASSAILANT & SHOTS FIRED AFTER PARKING): In this scenario, shooter would also be the vehicle’s driver.

In this scenario, we see the driver pulled forward into surveillance video and parked at 2:47:40 a.m. (literally the estimated time Katie collapsed given her location). For this scenario to work, the driver would have had to somehow get out of vehicle in about one second of parking on Hamorton and then shoot Katie immediately. Single shooter almost definitely would not have been able to make the calculated timing if shooter parked first in surveillance video before shooting because shooter would then have to get out of vehicle and turn towards target (unless driver crawled into passenger seat and shot from there, which I think is very unlikely). Shooter would have had to quickly open vehicle door, very quickly dash to shooting position, point gun and fire multiple shots, all this within the span of only 1 second in order to fit with timing, if any longer than 1 second (as obviously it would be), then Katie would be further away – this scenario seems extremely unlikely.

–SCENARIO THREE (DRIVER PLUS AT LEAST ONE OTHER ASSAILANT): Having more than one perpetrator enables this very quick crime to be carried out more easily. With a dedicated driver and at least one other assailant acting as shooter, the crime could be carried out with more precision. For example, if the driver let the shooter(s) out of the car before driving past Katy/Berryhill Realty driveway, then the shooter(s) could have confronted the victim at gunpoint and performed shooting while having the driver focus solely on parking and the getaway, this would easily explain why she could have been getting shot and falling while the driver was parking. Or alternatively, if driver just drove and shooter(s) stayed in vehicle, shooter assailant(s) could have been focused on shooting from inside the vehicle, such as listed in SCENARIO ONE, dedicated shooter could shoot either from front passenger seat or from back seat). As the time window is so tight, for Katie to arrive at front of driveway, driver to be approximately in front of Katie at that same time, and for driver to park past the driveway approximately 2 seconds later while Katie is falling in the driveway; it is very likely the driver was focusing solely on driving and someone else was focusing on the shooting. Also, if the shooting did occur after the car parked, the non-driver shooter(s) would be able to come out of the passenger side facing Katie with a better angle to start quickly firing rather than a driver who would have to change his position and turn around before then shooting.

I think most likely there was a dedicated driver and the other shooter assailant(s) shot several times at Katie in the driveway as shooter(s) were shooting from Hamorton (whether from inside car or from standing outside of it); this enables the timeline to work in various ways and aligns with the tight window of time just after driver drives past Katie and the vehicle parks 2 seconds later. As multiple shots were reported and she was only struck one time according to reports, I'm thinking the shooter was not right next to her at the time of shooting. Probably shots were fired by dedicated shooter(s) just as the car was parking. I think most likely the first shot or two missed and scared Katie into dashing left into the Berryhill driveway where she was eventually struck by at least one of the bullets which caused her to fall. I think it makes sense for Katie's left side to have received blunt force trauma from her fall as she was going left into driveway as she fell. The alarm then went off from the gunshots and the perpetrator(s) perhaps abandoned their robbery mission, perhaps the driver did not take off immediately after hearing alarm because of the need to wait on the other perpetrators to get back into the getaway vehicle first before taking off. Also, at just about 1 second following the estimated shooting time, a red car drives by The Plaza and Hamorton at 2:47:41 a.m., and the assailant driver would have no-doubt seen the car drive by at the time of the shooting and may have influenced driver to not want to drive forward to the same street a potential witness may be on. There may have been some disagreement in the vehicle as to the best getaway direction. I’m not surprised the vehicle initially backed away to leave the scene.

I believe SCENARIO THREE is by far the most likely scenario as it is most plausible and has several conditions that could account for the timeline and for what we see on the surveillance video. I believe the assailants had a plan and were combing the area on the late night looking for someone inebriated to shoot/rob and happened upon a young girl who looked like an easy mark. My understanding is that usually during a robbery, the robbers do not shoot unless the robbers feel very threatened. The fact a shooting occurred in a case like this appears extremely rare and has caused a lot of confusion and unanswered questions. I believe it’s important to keep in mind that around the time of this shooting, there were a number of other nearby shooting/robberies that occurred whereby the victim was first shot and then robbed; I believe the same plan was likely in place and Katie would have been robbed after being shot if the gunfire didn’t cause the alarm to go off and send the attackers to the getaway vehicle to leave the scene.

Furthermore, as publicized in the news, at a nearby location in the same Plaza Midwood neighborhood only several weeks after this crime, essentially another SCENARIO THREE shooting crime happened again, also at night, just a short distance away whereby three individuals were in a car that drove up and performed a shooting/robbery at night of two people where both victims were shot and one was shot through the side (as I understand Katie was). These perpetrators are my number one suspects in this crime. You can Google to see the news articles to learn more about this.

Being a women & walking home alone at night is never a great idea. Don’t care how “safe” the area is.

😢💔😭

Wonder why she didn’t have her pepper spray out? Carrying it on a key chain ? Especially walking home alone at night.

No other cameras picked up a tan car that time of night driving by? That’s hard to believe. Doesn’t matter if it can’t see Kathy just that type of car

The police and detectives do not disclose most of the information, this is understandable, but time is working against them. It is necessary to make public the information that was obtained as a result of the investigation — this information can be used by "enthusiasts", witnesses and can help them move forward.

ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING.

I wouldn't walk down Central Ave in the daylight , much less in the dark

That friend that said, pink pepper spray really gives me a bad vibe….

I hope they find the punks!

A woman alone in the middle of the night is a tragedy waiting to happen…

Curious if there were anymore cameras down the road the car took?