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Police Still Seeking Tips In Jogger's Shooting Death: Who Killed Alexandra Brueger?

ROSE TOWNSHIP (WWJ) - Authorities are hoping a $12,500 cash reward will be enough motivation to encourage someone to identify the gunman who shot and killed a 31-year-old nurse as she was jogging along a rural Oakland County road last summer.

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Franz Brueger and his wife plead for information about their daughter's murder. (WWJ/Stephanie Davis)

Family members of Alexandra Brueger pleaded for information during an afternoon news conference Tuesday.

Franz Brueger and his wife Nikki are the parents of the victim.

Somebody knows something says the family.

"No parent should ever bury their child," said Franz Brueger. "Help us find this assassin that took our child from us, please bring this person to justice."

Franz believes that his daughter may have known her killer.

Her mother says that her daughter had no enemies that she knew.

"We beg of you to speak up," said the victim's dad, "put yourself in our shoes - imagine not being able to see or speak to your child forever."

"Any kind of information," said Nikki Brueger, "that you might have, even if you don't think it's important - just find your voice.

"She pushed down her fear, she turned to run away, and the person with the gun, shot her in the back four times. The coward -- because only a coward would shoot someone who looked like a child, in the back, four times."

Police say they've received dozens of tips in the case, but the gunman is still at large.

Brueger, who regularly went for 10-mile runs, was shot multiple times in the back while jogging on Fish Lake Road, in rural Rose Township, on the afternoon of July 30, 2016. Investigators say she collapsed on a resident's front lawn and died.

Witnesses said a white or light-colored four-door sedan was seen traveling at a high rate of speed on Fish Lake Road around the time Brueger was killed, but police have yet to identify that vehicle.

Crime Stoppers is offering $7,500, in addition to a $5,000 reward offered by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives -- bringing the total reward amount in the case to $12,500.

Anyone with information is urged to contact police at 248-584-5740, call the Michigan State Police Tip Line at 855-MICH-TIP, or submit a tip anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.

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