Photo via the FBI

Photo via the FBI

As family members celebrated her life on Friday morning, the FBI is continuing to search for a person who they suspect abducted Ashanti Billie, a 19-year-old Maryland native who was found dead behind a church in Charlotte, North Carolina last week.

The agency is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can help with the arrest, prosecution, or conviction of the person or people responsible, according to a statement.

Officials say Billie disappeared on September 18 from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Her car was found on September 23 in the neighboring city of Norfolk, and her body was located on September 29 in Charlotte.

Billie graduated high school in Prince George’s County and moved to Virginia to study culinary arts at the Art Institute of Virginia Beach. She had recently started working at a sandwich shop at Joint Expeditionary Base in Norfolk. Her employer is also offering $10,000 for information in the case, according to Fox 5 News.

Police said camera footage caught her entering the military base on September 18 around 5 a.m., but she never made it to work.

“We loved Ashanti dearly,” her grandmother said at her funeral on Friday. “She will be missed, but God wanted her more, so we give her over to him. He has her now.”

A charter bus full of family members and friends traveled from Norfolk to Maryland to attend the ceremony.

The case is being investigated by the FBI, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Virginia Beach Police Department, Norfolk Police Department, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

Officials are asking for information, particularly in regard to seeing Billie or her car between September 18 and 23. They are also requesting any private or commercial video recordings or dash-camera videos that may have captured her car, a 2014 white-colored Mini with Maryland tags 2CX-0575, traveling between Virginia and North Carolina during that time period.

People can provide information to the FBI Norfolk Field Office by calling 757-455-0100 or emaing agnorfolkFO@fbi.gov with the subject line Ashanti Billie.