Who Savagely Gunned Down Mother Of Three, Candance Prunty?

Candance M."Pooky" Prunty

She was smart, fun loving, bubbly. She was a hard worker and loved her family, especially her three kids. She also loved people, food and taking naps. Candance loved to laugh and had the most beautiful, brightest smile.

Candance was born on October 4th, 1989 to Patricia Beard and Howard Prunty. She graduated in 2008 from South High School. She also received a certificate of completion in Business Office Administration from Clark State Community College 2015.

On Wednesday, October 21st, 2015, while her boys were at school, someone came into her house on the 1000 block of West Mulberry Street in Springfield, Ohio and shot 24-year-old Candance to death. It was just before 4 p.m. when family went to the home to check on her because she had not picked her children up from school. They found the back door unlocked and Candance laying on the kitchen floor. She had been shot in the arm and neck area.

The family then called police.

Sometime before her murder, her car was vandalized followed by her home. Candance had moved from her home on Wittenberg Avenue, into the West Mulberry home with her older sister before the murder. Candance had been harassed at the previous home by someone throwing boulders through her windows.

In the following days after her murder, there was a person of interest taken into custody by Columbus SWAT teams, but they were never charged. 

The police believed that the arrest of the person of interest would lead them other people. 

Candance's mother believes people in the area have information that could be useful to the case and she wants them to come forward.