Detroit woman still seeking justice for her daughter's murder ten years later: “It will always hurt”

(CBS) – Tiané Brown was a mother of three and studying law at Wayne State University. Her mother says she dreamed of becoming a patent attorney, but on October 28, 2013, everything changed.

That night, Brown disappeared after taking a test at Wayne State University. Two days later, she was found dead in her vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head.

“It was like a nightmare you never wake up from,” said her mother, Sheryl Jones.

Jones has fought tirelessly to keep her daughter's memory alive. She has kept photos of her daughter in her West Bloomfield home and is following the Detroit police investigation.

But lately, Jones says it's become difficult for her to call the investigator. She shared a video she took earlier this month trying to reach him, showing the investigator's voicemail full. Now she feels like her daughter's unsolved case is getting the cold shoulder.

“It's hard because that was my child; she was my only daughter, and it will always hurt,” Jones told CBS News Detroit. “And all I want is to get justice for her because she was a human being. I cared about her.”

DPD Captain Donna McCord of the Homicide Division says a new plan was created this year for cases older than 10 years. The plan calls for victims' families to be updated on the status of the case every six months.

“We're not going to call them every week unless there's new information,” McCord said. “We don't want to rip the Band-Aid off every week and say we're sorry, we don't know and we don't have any new information.”

But Jones told CBS News Detroit the wounds never healed and being ignored made her feel even worse.

“It hurts my heart. It's awful,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like they're not as interested as I think they should be.”