It’s been six months since Tommorow Betton lost her son Jamari, and the hurt is still vivid.

“I’m telling the honest to God truth, I’m in a state of shock about my child,” Betton, a mother of five, said. “I’m so heartbroken, I can’t hardly sleep at night.”

The body of Jamari Jajuan Moore, 25, of Scottsboro, was found Aug. 18, 2023, wrapped in plastic in Lake Guntersville.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office classified it as a homicide.

Moore’s body was found near the border between Marshall and Jackson County on a Friday afternoon at about 1 p.m. by a fisherman off County Road 67, just before South Sauty Creek near Langston.

The investigation has so far involved the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Scottsboro police, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Jackson County District Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

However, there have been no arrests.

Betton said she “feels in her soul” that authorities are close to a breakthrough. “I think they’re getting closer. It’s just frustrating because it’s been so long.”

Moore, a native of Fort Payne, had lived in Lithonia, Ga. Known as “Mop,” he had pursued a career in music production and had just begun breeding bulldogs with his brother.

Moore had only been living in Alabama for about a month, Betton said, when he was murdered.

“That’s why I say what happened to him was demonic,” she said. “He hadn’t lived here long enough for anything to happen to him, to make any enemies.”

Betton described Jamari, her oldest son, as a “little lover boy” with a sense of humor, but independent, self-sufficient, with a strong work ethic and a love of family.

“He kept to himself. He spent a lot of time with his niece and nephews. He was a home body. He would go to work, come home,” she said. “It’s shocking that he’s dead because he was a good kid. He wasn’t into anything.”