The family of a Terry Parker High student found dead in an empty lot is demanding an explanation.
Seventeen-year-old Donneil Williams was murdered in September of 2015, just days before he planned to take an SAT prep test.
The identity of his killers or a motive remained a mystery for years. Williams' grandmother Ollie Harrison said she's longed for closure at the sudden loss of the child she raised from birth.
It's hard when they are this young and they want something out of life," Harrison said. "It's awful, it's painful I have no closure."
Last week, a JSO spokesperson told First Coast News the person investigators suspect in Williams' murder died one day after their alleged victim.
Leford Smith, 26, was found dead in a house on West Beaver Street on September 26, 2015.
Smith had a history of run-ins with JSO and several weapons charges.
The JSO spokesperson said Smith was involved in a shootout with Charles Eunice and both died. Police believed Eunice was justified in the shooting. According to JSO, this information was provided to Williams' grandmother as his next of kin. Harrison denies knowing a suspect name or the date of their death.
The latest explanation raises many questions for Harrison and Dana Edmonds of Jacksonville Tutoring Club in Mandarin.
"[Donneil would] stay from the time we opened to the time we closed," Edmonds said. "To watch the transformation in such a short time. He was [why] we do what we do for."
The two women say they checked in with JSO monthly on a status of the case and were called in for a meeting last year. Edmonds said a detective told them the suspects in Williams' death died in a car fire, but that more details would be released once it was confirmed. Harrison said the information never came.
"You can't have closure if you're changing the story," Edmonds told First Coast News. "That's the most bothering part. They told us the story of the car burning up. We wouldn't have known that this shooting even happen."
First Coast News has requested the case file for Williams' murder case and the request is pending with JSO.
"If this is the answer, I'd like to see the proof that these are the ones responsible," Harrison said. "Show me. I want to see proof that these are the people that did shoot Donneil...make me understand it."