On the morning of February 3, 2022, firefighters on the southbound shoulder of I-580 in Reno, Nevada found a vehicle fully engulfed. After the blaze was put out, the body of 23-year-old Anna Marie Scott, a Paiute woman and mother of two who was a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, was recovered. The Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office identified her and ruled her death a homicide, noting she died from a gunshot wound.

Investigators with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office asked the public for information about Anna’s movements and contacts in the days and hours before her death; her family last spoke with her the night before she was found. Secret Witness offered a reward. Months later a person of interest, Jacori Shaw, was publicly named, but he was shot and killed by police in an unrelated incident while authorities were attempting to arrest him on weapons charges before he could be fully questioned.

The investigation remains open and Anna’s family and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe have urged anyone with information to come forward. Did anyone in the Reno area have recent contact with Anna or know about her plans in late January and early February 2022?