A 7-year-old girl wrote a heartbreaking letter to Santa after her father was shot dead only days before Christmas.
37-year-old Joshua Mitchell just arrived home from work when he was shot on his driveway on December 17.
Authorities are still looking for the gunman as the investigation continues.
Paulding County Sheriff’s Office also said in a statement: “Paulding Deputies responded to the Abbington Subdivison in southern Paulding County to investigate the murder of a Paulding County man Saturday night.
“On Saturday December 17, 2022, at approximately 9.40pm, several residents of Warrenton Drive called Paulding E-911 to report hearing gunshots in the neighborhood.
“When Deputies arrived in the area, they located Mitchell laying in the driveway beyond help. It was preliminarily determined that Mitchell died as a result of several gunshot wounds to his body.”
After the tragic incident, his young daughter, Sa’Raya, wrote a heartbreaking letter to Santa asking for her father back.
His grieving wife, Nicoele, said: “The fact that it happened before Christmas will always be a conversation of ‘when we lost daddy’.
“She said ‘I’m good in school, I make good grades, can I please have my daddy back?’”
Nicoele added: “I’m glad that that morning before he left off to work – we got to say those words to each other.
“So that will forever be in my brain – his kiss and I love you.”
The heartbreaking letter reads: “Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is I want my dad back. I love my dad. Someone hurt my dad.
“I want God to bring him back. I’m getting good grades and I [am] good at school.”
Her letter ended with her saying she and her dad celebrated the same birthday and she doesn’t want to celebrate it without him.
Nicoele said that they spent Christmas sharing their favorite memories with Joshua.
She also described him as an ‘honorable marine and an entrepreneur, as well as a devoted husband and stepfather.’
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