Family seeks answers after couple killed in North Philly murder mystery: 'We knew something was wrong'
PHILADELPHIA - The search for a suspect continues after a man and woman were found fatally shot inside a home near the campus of Temple University, two weeks ago.
FOX 29's Steve Keeley spoke to the victims' families about the murder mystery.
On Thursday, December 19, Jocelyn Marshall's family got the news they didn't want.
"I don't know how many times I called that day," said her brother Walter.
That day, her brother Walter knew in his heart something was wrong, terribly wrong.
"She's not gonna leave her son just hanging at school, so that's how I knew something ain't right," Walter said.
Jocelyn was a longtime and loyal employee of Tastykake, and never one to miss work and not even call to let them know.
"Once HR started reaching out, it's like something is really wrong. Thank God she had a job who cares about the employees," said Breya Marshall, Jocelyn's sister.
"What went through your mind when you heard from Tastykake that she hadn't shown up for work?" asked Keeley. "Where is she? It's not her norm, so where is she?" Breya responded.
Jocelyn was not at work and not at her six-year-old son's school to pick him up.
"For her to be totally unreachable is rare, so we knew something was wrong," said David Cottman, Jocelyn's uncle.
Her brother Walter went to Jocelyn's boyfriend of one year's home on Diamond Street, got in, and found both of them. He then called the police.
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Jocelyn's family told police she had no trouble with anyone and felt her boyfriend, 39-year-old Terrell Sanders, must have been the target, but unfortunately, Jocelyn also happened to be there too.
"The wrong place at the wrong time," said Breya.
"I really understand now when people say 'I lost a part of me.' I feel it now. I know what it feels like," said Walter.
With her funeral Saturday, her family hopes their pain appeals to someone who knows something.
"If you know something, say something. That's the only way we can get better as a community anyway. When you don't say nothing, these people still out here lurking, whoever it was, whoever did it. But you don't say anything when you know something, it can happen again," said Walter.
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