Briekethia Pruitt, a 39-year-old African American woman from Cleveland, Ohio, was found fatally shot inside a vehicle on February 9, 2025. Officers from the Cleveland Division of Police’s Fourth District responded to a report of a person slumped in a car on Judson Drive at about 7:26 a.m.; Cleveland EMS pronounced Pruitt dead at the scene.

Homicide detectives identified a suspect quickly. Forty-one-year-old Corey Sanders, reportedly known to Pruitt, was arrested on February 11, 2025, at a residence in Garfield Heights and charged with aggravated murder. He appeared in Cleveland Municipal Court where bond was set at $2 million; the case was bound over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury.

Authorities have not released further details about the circumstances of the shooting or the relationship between Pruitt and Sanders. If anyone knew Briekethia Pruitt or has information about what happened on Judson Drive that morning, please come forward.