(CBS DETROIT) – Tiané Brown was a mother of three and a full-time law student at Wayne State University. Her mother says she dreamed of becoming a patent attorney, but that all changed on October 28, 2013.
That was the night Brown disappeared after taking a test at Wayne State. Two days later, she was found dead in her vehicle with a single gunshot wound to the head.
“It was like a nightmare that you never wake up from,” said her mother, Sheryl Jones.
Jones has fought hard to keep her daughter’s memory alive, keeping photos of her daughter around her West Bloomfield home and keeping up with the Detroit Police Department’s investigation.
But lately, Jones says, she’s had a hard time getting through when she tries to call the detective. She shared a video she took earlier this month trying to reach him, which shows the detective’s inbox full. Now, she feels like her daughter’s cold case is getting the cold shoulder.
“It’s hard because she was my child; she was my only daughter, and it’s always going to hurt,” Jones told CBS News Detroit. “And all I want to do is get justice for her, because she was a human being. She was important to me.”
DPD Capt. Donna Mccord of the homicide unit says a new plan was created this year for cases older than 10 years. The plan calls for families of victims to be updated on the status of the case every six months.
“We’re not going to call them every week unless there’s new information,” Mccord said. “We don’t want to have to rip off that band-aid every week and say we don’t know and we don’t have any new information.”
But Jones told CBS News Detroit that the wounds never healed and that being ignored only makes her feel worse.
“I feel like it hurts in my heart. It’s horrible,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like they’re not as interested as I think they should be.”
Walter Murphy
