On the evening of June 11, 2020, 24-year-old Aseal Iysheh was shot and killed in the parking lot of a BJ’s Food Mart on East Magnolia Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee. She sent a text to her sister around 9:15 PM saying she was hungry; police arrived about 9:30 PM and found her deceased from multiple gunshot wounds. Witnesses reported an argument between Aseal and a man just before the shooting, and officers believe that man fled on foot; many witnesses had already left by the time police got there.

In the weeks before her death Aseal had reported an assault in the same parking lot and had identified her 44-year-old boyfriend as the assailant; he was in jail the night she was killed and has been ruled out as the shooter. No clear suspect has been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced. A reward for information has been raised to $50,000 as the investigation remains active. If anyone was at the BJ’s that night or knows anything about the argument or the person who fled, please come forward with information.