Ashley Michelle Curtiss, 37, was shot and killed in her car just after midnight on December 31, 2020, at the intersection of 45th Street and I-95 in West Palm Beach, Florida. She was found dead at the scene. Curtiss worked as a behavioral health technician at a halfway house for men recovering from drug and alcohol addiction and was a single mother to a young daughter.

Witnesses said a dark-colored vehicle with darkly tinted windows pulled up beside Curtiss’s car and a person with an assault rifle hung out of the driver’s side rear window, firing through Curtiss’s front windshield. The vehicle used in the shooting was later found abandoned with its window tint removed. Two men, James Tooks III, 26, of West Palm Beach, and Antwane Thurston, 37, of Pahokee, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder; fingerprints and phone records were cited as linking them to the crime. No motive has been disclosed, and it is unclear whether Curtiss was the intended target.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.