A Florida mother of four who went missing for a week was found shot to death in the storage unit of her estranged husband – a convicted murderer – who is now considered the prime suspect in her murder, authorities said.
The decomposed body of Shakeira Rucker, 37, was found Saturday at a Self Storage facility on Wiggins Street in Apopka, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The woman’s death is being investigated as a homicide.
“My heart is broken, I can’t imagine the pain and suffering [her family] has survived the past week,” Sheriff John Mina said during a Sunday press conference shared by WESH-TV. “We all expected different results.”
The grim discovery came after an intense four-county search that involved officers from multiple law enforcement agencies, aided by the FBI, working 16-18 hours a day to track down the missing mother, officials said.
“It’s not the outcome we expected, but there is some closure for the Shakeira family,” Winter Springs Police Chief Matthew Tracht said Sunday.
The decomposed body of missing mother Shakeira Rucker, 37, was found in a Florida storage unit on Saturday.Fox35orlando
Deputies had just finished searching for Rucker in Mount Dora Saturday afternoon when they received a call from someone reporting “an odor coming from one of the units” at Self Storage in Apopoka, Mina said.
Rucker appeared to have been shot multiple times inside the storage unit, Mina said, adding that a full autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death.
Cory Hill, 51, Rucker’s estranged husband, is the sole suspect and will eventually be charged with her murder, Mina said. The man did not cooperate with the investigation, and the unit where Rucker was found dead was registered to him.
Cory Hill, 51, Rucker’s estranged husband, is the prime suspect in the murder. Orange County Sheriff’s Office
“Cory Hill could have stopped a lot of that pain and suffering by talking to the investigators early on instead of putting them through this week-long nightmare,” the sheriff said.
“The storage unit was registered to him, he had to know that we would eventually find him there, so it was very, very disappointing.”
Rucker was last seen the night of Nov. 11 with Hill at a restaurant in Polk County.
Rucker was last seen on the night of November 11 with her estranged husband, Hill.Winter Springs Police Department
Her family said they last heard from the woman when she told them she was going to get food.
Last week, police released surveillance photos of Rucker and Hill together at the restaurant, and named the 51-year-old man as a person of interest in the woman’s disappearance.
Just hours after Rucker was last seen, Hill allegedly went to the home of his ex-girlfriend, Angel Milligan, and opened fire.
The search spanned four counties involving officers from multiple law enforcement agencies, assisted by the FBI.WESH
“I heard gunshots. I felt two of them go past my face, running scared for my life,” Milligan told WESH.
Milligan and his family said Hill was upset that he had contacted his estranged wife, Rucker. She also claimed that the man threatened her by saying, “Don’t run now; I’m going to kill you,” Milligan said.
Following the shooting, Hill was booked into the Orange County Jail on four counts of attempted murder. He was already in custody for that when Rucker’s body was found.
Hill’s criminal record includes a previous murder conviction stemming from a 1992 shooting in Virginia that killed a man who had stolen Hill’s car with her baby girl inside.
Hill was sentenced to 20 years in prison and was released in 2005, according to court records. He moved to Orlando in 2016.
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