Local families are pushing for answers in the death of two women found shot on the Westside.
Action News Jax first reported the shootings Wednesday night. Annie Miller was found dead on a road and Deborah Ziegler's body was found inside a car.
Action News Jax reporter Courtney Cole spent the day on the Westside of Jacksonville and spoke to Ziegler’s daughter, Tameika Mays.
Mays was fighting back tears as she explained she does not know why anyone would want to harm her mother.
She believes her mother was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. "I don’t know who took my mama’s life, why they took my mama’s life, why they decided to do what they wanted to do yesterday. They took my angel," She said.
Mays said she was at a loss for words when she found out her mother was dead.
"My brother came and told me this morning.”
It was just after 9:20 p.m. Wednesday when the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting call on Placeda Street.
When they arrived, they found two women shot to death.
One woman was found dead on the street. Neighbors and friends, who only felt comfortable speaking off-camera, said it was Annie Miller.
Mays says her 58-year-old mother was found inside the car. "I’m just hurt. Just hurt. That somebody can just go around shooting up women. It’s just senseless," She said.
Mays said her mom was friendly and would always sit on her porch and wave to everybody.
"Now I gotta tell my babies that their grandmother that just cooked them dinner last night is no longer with us. So if you know anything, call JSO. You can slip me a note in my mailbox, it don’t matter. Help me get some understanding, some type of closure,” Mays pleaded.
Cole also spoke to Nathaniel Randolph, a neighborhood friend of Annie Miller.
Randolph has been living on the Westside of Jacksonville for the last 12 years -- just a block-and-a-half south of where the two women were shot to death.
Randolph said he was home when the shooting happened. “I didn’t think nothing of it, ‘cause a little commotion goes on down there anyway in that parts over there though. Come to find out it was a friend I see in the neighborhood periodically. I said ‘Wow,' you know?”
Randolph said he would see Miller in passing and remembers keeping her son company when Miller would go into a local store.
“She was a nice person to me,” Randolph said.
He describes Miller as someone who kept to herself and was focused on raising on her son.
Randolph hopes JSO finds whoever is responsible soon. “It’s kind devastating to hear that you just talked to somebody and they’re gone the next day." He said.
JSO continues to look for the suspect or suspects. Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers at 866-845-TIPS. (Remember, these calls can be made anonymously.)