Aleksandra Micic

Aleksandra Micic was a 17-year-old White girl from Jacksonville, Florida, remembered by a friend as having a “good spirit.” She was a nursing student at Florida State College at Jacksonville with a promising life ahead of her. Friends who normally spoke with her multiple times a day grew concerned when they did not hear from her on May 29, 2020. The last message one friend received from her, sent the day before, simply read, “You Busy?”

On the afternoon of May 29, 2020, crews from the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department were in the Hogan’s Creek area for training when they noticed smoke coming from an abandoned apartment complex on West 6th Street. They responded to the fire, and after extinguishing the flames, they made a devastating discovery inside one of the buildings: Aleksandra’s body.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office immediately suspected foul play and began investigating her death as a homicide. An autopsy later revealed that Aleksandra had not died as a result of the fire. Instead, it determined she had been shot multiple times. In the early days of the investigation, police released a composite sketch to the public in an effort to identify the victim. A week later, she was identified as Aleksandra Micic. A friend told reporters she believed Aleksandra had been with a man in the days before her death but had no idea who would have wanted to harm her.

For over a year, the investigation continued as Aleksandra’s loved ones waited for answers. A significant breakthrough finally came in July 2021, when authorities announced they had made an arrest. After a lengthy investigation, police identified and interviewed a suspect who was already in the Duval County Jail on unrelated charges.

The suspect, 29-year-old William Henry Cone, was charged with murder and arson in connection with Aleksandra’s death. As of July 2021, the case against him was proceeding through the legal system, marking a crucial step toward justice for Aleksandra Micic.