Sherry Ross, 24, was stabbed to decease successful 1991 successful her Lackawanna location portion her 6-year-old girl hid successful her bedroom

Detective Ray Reeves holds a photograph of Sherry Ross. (WJXT)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Detectives astatine the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office are resubmitting grounds successful a 30-year-old acold lawsuit execution successful hopes that caller exertion volition assistance them find the killer.

On May 8, 1991, Sherry Ross, 24, was stabbed to decease successful her location connected Thomas Street successful the Lackawanna country portion her daughter, who was 6 years aged astatine the time, hid successful her room.

About 3 p.m. that day, Ross picked up her girl from school. Soon aft that, the miss was successful her country erstwhile she heard a scream.

“And past she hears a man’s voice, a antheral dependable demanding money, saying, ‘Give maine each your money, springiness maine your gold,’” said Detective Ray Reeves, with JSO’s acold lawsuit homicide unit.

Ross’ girl saw a man’s feet arsenic she hid nether her bed.

“There’s commotion that’s going connected from the room into ... the mom’s bedroom,” Reeves said. “[Ross’ daughter] goes into her ain closet and hides successful the closet.”

The attacker asked Ross if anyone other was home, but she said no.

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“Everything centered successful her satellite astir this young girl, and truthful adjacent successful that arsenic her beingness was perchance astatine hazard and past ended, she knew to support her small girl,” Reeves said.

It’s not wide if the slayer knew Ross oregon was a stranger. According to JSO, a witnesser identified a antheral adjacent the location astir the clip of the killing.

Now, detectives are hoping caller exertion volition assistance supply clues astir who came successful the location that day.

“We’re successful the process present of resubmitting items, fingerprints, DNA evidence, blood, those kinds of things to spot if we tin get that up to today’s standards due to the fact that exertion has precocious truthful much,” Reeves said.

Reeves said they could get results successful conscionable a fewer weeks.

One happening they’re looking into is comparing the DNA samples to genealogy databases wherever radical person submitted their familial information. Right now, investigators are checking with scientists to spot if this lawsuit would beryllium a bully campaigner for that.

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Reeves is besides asking anyone who knows thing related to the lawsuit — nary substance however tiny — to telephone JSO astatine 904-630-0500 oregon Crime Stoppers astatine 1-866-845-TIPS (8477).

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