‘Like it happened yesterday’: Family of woman shot dead on I-95 wants answers

Sheila Nuñez has not slept in for the last five years. Her dead daughter’s voice routinely wakes her in the pre-dawn hours of her North Bay Village home, pleading her for justice.

“I know that from where she’s at [in heaven], every day she’s telling me ‘Mom, do something,’” says the 51-year-old Cuban mother. “Every morning, I wake up wondering what I’m going to do because I know she’s telling me ‘Mom, you can’t let this case die.’”

Melissa Gonzalez, her oldest, was killed by a stray bullet while driving south on I-95, near Northwest 79th Street, on Jan. 3, 2020. The 22-year-old was en route to visit her sick grandfather at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach with her boyfriend…

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