LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - 32-year-old Rachael Hughes of Louisville was found dead Sunday near the boat ramp in Shawnee Park.

Police searched for evidence both on land and in the water.

Described as compassionate and generous, Hughes’ grieving parents cannot understand why someone would want her dead.

“I do know they shot her eight times,” Hughes’ mother, Tammy Bryant, said. “That’s hard.”

Bryant said Hughes borrowed her car with plans to drive down Bardstown Road to a laundromat, where Bryant said Rachael would stop to play games of chance almost nightly.

“I think somebody robbed her and took her car,” Bryant said, “because they ended up dumping my car on 46th St.”

That was just a block north of Shawnee Park, less than a minute’s drive from where Rachael’s body was found at the Shawne

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