TX TX, Dallas - Shelly Colliflower, 14, & Vincent Tijerina, 16, Students @ Weatherford H.S, Fatally shot, Clue in purse, 25 March 1983 *New Initiative*

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Oct 29 2022 rbbm

Families Search for Answers 39 Years After Murders of Two Weatherford Teens

Nearly four decades after the murders of two Weatherford High School students rocked the entire city, the victims’ families are still looking for justice.

www.nbcdfw.com

''On March 25, 1983, the flags in front of the high school flew at half-staff after the students were killed in a parking area off Tin Top Road where young people often hung out.

Freshman Shelly Colliflower, 14, and sophomore Vincent Tijerina, 16, were both shot in the head.

"You know, I've had people tell me I need to move on. But I can't," said Johnnie Nitcholas, Shelly’s mother. "I want justice."

The last image she has of her daughter – when she dropped her off at school that day – still haunts her.

"She got out of the car and she looked down at me and she said, 'Bye momma, I love you,’” she said. “And that was my last memory of her."

So who would have killed two young high school kids? And why?

The motive for the murders is as much a mystery today as it was back then.''

''Theories run the gamut. Shelly's mother thinks it might have been another student who had a crush on her.

"It wasn't random. It was someone who knew them well,” she said.

She said police told her years ago about one possible clue.

"There was a note left in her purse the last period of class,” she said. “It told her she was too beautiful and that he wanted her but that she was so beautiful he knew he couldn't have her and one day he would have her."

 

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39 years later, families of slain teens still searching for answers

WEATHERFORD — It’s been 39 years to the day since the murder of two teenagers sent shockwaves through the Weatherford community.

www.weatherforddemocrat.com

''The call came in to police on March 26, 1983 around 7 a.m. — two teenagers, Colliflower, 14, and Vincent Tijerina Jr., 16, were found dead in a car on an area off Tin Top Road and Cleburne Avenue near an abandoned school.

Both teens had sustained two gunshot wounds to the head. Vincent’s father, Vincent Tijerina Sr., was the one who found them and contacted police.

“[Vincent Jr.] had the family car that night, and he was supposed to have been back by midnight,” his uncle, Raymond Tijerina, said. “He did that frequently, maybe once or twice a week, where he’d go into town and stuff.”

When Vincent Jr. didn’t show up that night, his dad went looking for him.

“My brother spent all night looking and couldn’t find him,” Raymond said. “So when he was coming back home about 7 in the morning, he saw the car and that’s when he went up there and found both of them.”

Nitcholas and her then-husband, Ronald, father of Shelly and her younger sister, had left the previous day on a trip to Brownwood to celebrate their anniversary. The girls stayed with a friend of Nitcholas’s that night, and Shelly was allowed to go get a drink with Vincent.

“He was her first boyfriend and it was the first time she’d ever been in a car with him,” Nitcholas said''.

''Family members describe Shelly and Vincent Jr. as good, ordinary teenagers. Both were honor students at Weatherford High and popular among their classmates.''

''Anyone with information on the case can contact the Weatherford Police Department at 817-598-4310 or Parker County Crime Stoppers at 817-599-5555.''