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Twenty years after a gunman killed a 19-year-old woman and a 5-year-old boy on Thanksgiving Day, survivors of the deadly shooting are hopeful for answers.
The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) has assigned a new detective to the cold case – hoping someone knows something that may lead to an arrest and a conviction.
For the Spencer family, mom Nancy and son Jeff said it does not take much to trigger a memory.
“It’s a feeling I get when it’s foggy out – it instantly reminds me,” Jeff Spencer said.
Jeff and Nancy survived a mass shooting on Thanksgiving Day in 2002 in their home on 75th street in Tacoma’s South end neighborhood. Around 10 p.m. on Nov. 28, 2002, a gunman walked up to a basement window, and for a reason that is still a mystery to this day, unloaded.
“It’s surreal," Nancy Spencer said. "There are moments when I can see it all so clearly like it just happened because it stays in your mind. It stays in your heart,” Nancy said.
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