Investigators Post Sign Near Slaying Site : Crime: Police hope to trigger the memory of someone who has information about the fatal shooting of a female jogger in Fountain Valley last weekend.
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Investigators have posted a sign asking for the public’s help in solving the slaying of a 46-year-old flight attendant who was gunned down as she returned from her morning jog in Mile Square Regional Park, authorities said Wednesday.
The sign reads, “Help Solve Murder,” and provides a phone number for anyone who might have seen anything suspicious Saturday, when Jane Carver was fatally shot under her left eye, detectives said. The mother of two sons was found near her Fountain Valley home slumped in a flower bed about 8 a.m. by witnesses who heard her scream prior to a gunshot, according to police.
Investigators hung the sign, which is four-foot square, Tuesday afternoon near Mt. Marcus Street and Warner Avenue among the bouquets and garden-cut flowers that people have left in memory of Carver.
“We’re hoping the sign will trigger the memory of someone who happened to be driving by that day,” Police Chief Elvin Miali said. “They might see it and call us about it. It could turn out to be the piece of puzzle that helps us solve this whole thing.
“Right now, we’re pulling our hair out trying to figure it out. But we will figure it out.”
Police have been receiving from 50 to 60 phone calls a day since a sketch of a man seen leaving the slaying scene was released Sunday, Police Sgt. Dann Bean said. Investigators are looking into more than a dozen different possibilities of what might have happened, but nothing has panned out, Bean said.
“We’re keeping a very open mind,” he said.
Police are asking anyone with information about the suspect or the killing to call (714) 965-4466.
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