Law enforcement officials are still struggling to solve themurder of a Brookhaven store owner in January.

“We will find somebody,” Sheriff Wiley Calcote said firmly,”but, I really don’t have a whole lot more I can tell you at thistime.”

John Deere, 55, was shot to death Jan. 16 between 4:30 and 4:45a.m. shortly after he arrived a the Airport Pik & Pakconvenience store. He owned and operated the business with hiswife, Shirley, on Old Highway 51.

Deere’s body was found in the store parking lot after thesheriff’s department received a 911 call around 5 a.m. The storeowner had been shot three times.

“We are working on (this case) every day,” Calcote said. “We’retracking more leads and taking different angles on our approach tothe case. We’re closing in.”

The last piece of evidence made public by the sheriff’sdepartment was two days after the murder when a half-burned cashbox from the store was located.

The store’s cash box was recovered on Jan. 18 near the DixieSprings exit off Interstate 55 North. It appeared checks from thebox had been used to start the fire to burn it.

The cash box was sent to the crime lab for fingerprinting afterits recovery, but the sheriff’s department has declined furthercomment on those results.

Anyone with information about the crime is urged to contactCrime Stoppers at 823-0150 or the sheriff’s department at833-5231.