Serhonda Burnett, a 46-year-old Black woman from Oswego, Illinois, was killed on the afternoon of January 13, 2024. At about 4:49 p.m. 911 callers in Aurora, Illinois, reported a vehicle crash and gunfire near Prairie Street and Woodlawn Avenue. Officers found Burnett alone inside a crashed car, suffering multiple gunshot wounds; paramedics transported her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy confirmed multiple gunshot wounds as the cause of death and prosecutors said she had suffered a total of 10.

Aurora detectives identified Burnett’s recent domestic partner, Travares O. Mitchell, then 51, as the person responsible. Investigators say witness statements, surveillance video, and DNA from the car’s airbag showed Mitchell was driving when the vehicle struck a tree, that he exited the driver’s seat, fired several shots through the driver’s side window at Burnett, and fled on foot. A warrant for Mitchell’s arrest was issued February 21, 2024, and he was taken into custody in Orlando, Florida, on March 6, 2024, then returned to Kane County and held at the county jail.

Did anyone in the Aurora area see the crash or have information about what led up to it?