Jonte Thomas, 36, was shot after a Cocoa High School football game on December 9, 2016. He and two friends were driving on Fiske Boulevard when they heard gunfire; as Thomas turned onto Mitchell Street a bullet struck him and caused the vehicle to crash. He survived in hospital for nearly six months but died of his injuries on May 1, 2017.

Investigators recovered surveillance footage showing a white Nissan Altima, Maxima, or similar four-door sedan following Thomas’s vehicle just before the shooting. Cocoa Police say interviews have produced multiple dead-ends and that cooperation from potential witnesses has been limited, leaving motive unclear and prompting the possibility Thomas was not the intended target.

Thomas’s mother Anita Gibson and his widow Monique Thomas have urged the community to break the code of silence and come forward. No arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. If anyone has information about the white sedan or the shooting on Mitchell Street, please share what is known.