Tammie Lee Tschappat, a 38-year-old White female from Jacksonville, Florida, became the victim of a homicide case that has remained publicly unresolved. Records connected to the case identify Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office case number 389652 and give April 23, 2008, as the date the case was reported. The incident location is listed as 2945 Lucoma Drive in Jacksonville, and the offense is classified as murder involving a gun or firearm.
Separate death and obituary records state that Tschappat died on May 6, 2008. Because the homicide database provides no narrative describing the shooting or explaining the gap between the April 23 report date and her May 6 death, the available records do not establish exactly what happened during those intervening days. They do, however, indicate that the violent incident associated with the homicide investigation was recorded before her death.
The publicly available case entry contains very little information about the circumstances surrounding the attack. It identifies the cause as a gun or firearm and places the crime at the Lucoma Drive address, but it does not describe how the shooting unfolded, how many times Tschappat was struck, what investigators found at the scene, whether anyone witnessed the attack, or what motive may have been considered. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is identified as the investigating agency. The absence of a narrative leaves the central events largely unknown publicly: there is no published account in the available case record explaining why Tschappat was targeted, whether the gunman approached her inside or outside the property, or whether investigators believed the killer knew her.
Tschappat’s death left behind a family that included her mother, Beverly Burge, and two daughters, Heather Trout and Jammie Trout. Her obituary also identified her sisters, Tina and Terrie Strickland, along with several nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles. A graveside service was scheduled for May 12, 2008, at Brandy Branch Cemetery in Baldwin, Florida, with Fraser Funeral Home in Jacksonville handling the arrangements. Messages subsequently left by relatives and friends reflected the sudden loss felt by those close to her and repeatedly remembered her relationship with her daughters and extended family.
The homicide record lists the suspect as unknown and the suspect’s location as “at large.” It also classifies the case as unsolved. No name is provided for a suspected shooter, and no reliable publicly available report located in connection with the case documents an arrest for Tschappat’s killing, criminal charges against a particular person, an indictment, a trial, a guilty plea, or a conviction. Project Cold Case also cautions that its database is not updated regularly, so its entry cannot by itself establish that no investigative developments have ever occurred outside the public record. Based on the information currently available online, however, Tschappat’s killing remains presented as an unsolved Jacksonville homicide in which the person responsible has never been publicly identified or brought to justice.
