Part 1: A Mother's Plea for a Killer to Come Forward

It’s been nearly five years, and police are still looking for a murderer. A mother in Monroe is pleading for anyone who knows who killed her son, Tyler, and his friend to come forward.

No arrests have been made in a double homicide and shooting December 29, 2005 on Woodhaven Drive.

Two families are hoping for closure in a case that’s turned cold, in the double murder of Tyler Jones and his friend, Amanda Oliphant, both gunned down at home around Christmas time. Also wounded in the attack was Jones’ mother, Deborah, who was shot and left for dead.

"It's hard because you don't know why I got left behind and he was taken." said Jones. "Why, why why? Were they at the wrong house?”

It was almost midnight at the Jones’ home, and the Christmas celebrations hadn’t stopped at the Jones’ home, a tightly-knit family.

Deborah Jones was watching television, when she says she heard a knock on the door.

Her son said he’d answer it. She didn’t realize those would be his last words.

"Then all of a sudden, I heard a loud popping noise. It took a second for me to realize what that was."

It was the sudden, sickening sound of gunfire that triggered a homicide investigation that still hasn’t ended in any arrests.

Deborah Jones ran toward the gunfire, only to see a man aim the barrel of a gun into her face, where he fired shots, and struck her. And she lived to tell the story to detectives after a long recovery.

The case has received national recognition online at the web site of America’s Most Wanted.

Detectives say the killer is described as a black man in his twenties, who is overweight and has ties to the 31 Flavors gang.