Twenty years after a gunman killed a 19-year-old woman and a 5-year-old boy on Thanksgiving Day, survivors of the deadly shooting are hopeful for answers. The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) has assigned a new detective to the cold case – hoping someone knows something that may lead to an arrest and a conviction. For the Spencer family, mom Nancy and son Jeff said it does not take much to trigger a memory. “It’s a feeling I get when it’s foggy out – it instantly reminds me,” Jeff Spencer said. Jeff and Nancy survived a mass shooting on Thanksgiving Day in 2002 in their home on 75th street in Tacoma’s South end neighborhood. Around 10 p.m. on Nov. 28, 2002, a gunman walked up to a basement window, and for a reason that is still a mystery to this day, unloaded. “It’s surreal," Nancy Spencer said. "There are moments when I can see it all so clearly like it just happened because it stays in your mind. It stays in your heart,” Nancy said. READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/unsolved/thanksgiving-day-shooting-tacoma-2002/281-756c467c-11c0-4b61-9cca-7e701b66c13e