On December 5, 2009, 31-year-old Vannessa Kay Thomas was shot and killed in her front yard in Omaha, Nebraska. The African American mother of two daughters, Kaybiaun and Belicia, was remembered by friends and family as a Benson High School classmate and a woman who was loved and deeply missed.

Vannessa’s death left her daughters being raised by their father, Charles Nelson. By 2014 investigators reported no new leads and no arrests, and the Omaha Police Department continues to list the case as an unsolved murder.

If anyone knew Vannessa, saw activity in her neighborhood on December 5, 2009, or has information that could help the investigation, please share what is known with the Omaha Police Department.