Crime & Safety

Police: Did You See This Car Sunday Night?

Sheriff's Office is trying to get information about vehicle driven by woman found shot to death.

Image: The police flier shows the shooting victim’s car (SCSO).

SPOTSYLVANIA, VA - The Spotsylvania County police are asking the public for help in the investigation of the shooting death of a 21-year-old woman.

Heather Ciccone was found dead late Sunday night in her car, parked in the driveway of a home in the 10300 block of Piney Branch Road in Spotsylvania, according to media reports.

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Ciccone was shot in the back of the head with a small-caliber pistol, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office told the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.

On Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office released a flier on its Facebook page with photos of Ciccone’s car, a 2010 Kia, and a message in the rear window: “I heart you” and a smiley face, written in white shoe polish.

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The sheriff’s office is asking anyone who may have seen this car, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday, to contact them, radio station WTOP reported.

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Spotsylvania detectives are looking for information about the shooting victim’s car to construct a timeline of Sunday’s shooting, WTOP reported.

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