SAN ANTONIO — Feb. 3 is National Missing Persons Day and for the first time the organization Search and Support San Antonio hosted an event locally, to provide support, raise awareness and bring visibility to missing persons cases and unsolved crimes in and around the San Antonio region.
Almost two months later, the family of Khadija Derry is still awaiting justice.
"I don't feel like we've got any justice at all because no one has been charged for the murder," said Dejanique Derry, Khadija's older sister. "There are suspects who may potentially be ruled out, you know, but clearly someone knows something and maybe just not saying something."
On Dec. 6, Khadija Derry was shot twenty times while sitting in her car outside her family home.
"I can only imagine she was scared... She was...They just left her there lifeless," her sister said.
Nina Brooks is the founder and president of Search and Support San Antonio and works with families like Derry's.
"If everyone comes together with their skills, their resources, you know, and united, we help the families," she said. "It takes a village and everybody can do something."
Brooks claims these cases are happening more often.
"When we first started off our team, that was searching for Andreen McDonald and then another family requested our assistance and another family right? But it was like in the tens," she said. "Now it's just we lost track, to be honest. It's insane. The numbers are steadily going up."
Khadija's family wants people to know, that anyone can help.
"I just want justice," Dejanique Derry said. "And if everybody can just help us by sharing it, by posting our name, by wearing yellow, you know, we're not asking for any money, any donations or anything. "