Her mother says 20 year old Jeslynn had goals. She had come up to school several times to help out with kindergarten and decided that's what she wanted to be, she wanted to be a kindergarten or preschool teacher. She loved the kids. But while she was moving toward that dream, Jeslynn supported herself working as a clerk at a convenience store. She was working out of Fitzenrieter Road and being so far away, her mother said that she had suggested that there had to be something that she could do to get in town closer. Finally something came up.
In the early morning hours of April 17, 1990, Jeslynn's boyfriend drove her to work for her second night on her new job at a store on Kirkman Street. The night that she was killed, they were watching TV and she had to wake him up for him to take her to work.
Lake Charles Police say that an individual walked up to the window and held up a medium caliber gun to the glass and fired striking Jesslyn in the back of the head. The motive wasn't robbery. Your looking at a random act of violence or a case of mistaken identity or something along those lines, say the police.
That means police don't have much to go on. They did have several witnesses who saw a man on a bicycle at the back of the store just before the murder. Now all they want is to know who's responsible for ending Jeslynn's life too soon.
If you know anything that could help detectives solve Jeslynn's murder and bring closure to her family, you can call the Lake Charles Police Department. That number is 491-1311.