Victoria Braddock, 28, was found with a gunshot wound on Cortez Road at Brookview Drive South in Jacksonville on May 15, 2017. She was taken to UF Health Jacksonville and died shortly after arriving. Witnesses said they saw her pushed out of a moving SUV; surveillance footage later showed a black Chevrolet TrailBlazer speeding away from the scene.

Investigators identified 29-year-old Charles Rowlands, a former Uber driver, as a suspect. His TrailBlazer was registered to him and he had been seen with Braddock in the days before her death. Rowlands had been arrested on April 25, 2017 for unrelated cocaine and concealed firearm charges. His girlfriend told police she saw a large amount of blood in his SUV on the day Braddock died and that he admitted doing something bad while cleaning the vehicle. An autopsy found Braddock’s wound was consistent with a shotgun blast, and records show Rowlands owned a short-barrel shotgun.

Rowlands was charged with evidence tampering for attempting to clean blood from his vehicle and later charged with second-degree murder. In December 2018 he pleaded guilty to both charges and received a 30-year sentence. Did anyone see Braddock with that TrailBlazer or notice the vehicle leaving Cortez Road on May 15?