On September 18, 2017, Ashanti Markaila Billie become an innocent victim of a violent crime in Virginia.

She was a 19 year old college student attending The Art Institute of Virginia Beach and was studying culinary arts with the dream of opening her own bakery. Additionally, she was the assistant store manager at a Blimpies Sandwich Shop on the Naval Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek in Norfolk Virginia. After entering onto the military naval base on the morning of Monday, September 18, 2017, she was assaulted and kidnapped by a retired naval officer, Eric Brian Brown. Her car was then stolen and her phone was dropped in a dumpster in a residential area. The car was located in the Ocean View neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia on September 23, 2017 and her body was located in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 29, 2017 on the church grounds that Brown attended as a child which was located yards from his childhood home.

Her co-workers were brave and courageous for speaking out and was instrumental in helping authorities find the man accused of kidnapping and assaulting Billie, Eric Brian Brown.  In return, for speaking the owner of the Blimpies Naval Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek fired them.  Please sign the petition and join us in boycotting Blimpies and let them know this is not ok. 

http://www.13newsnow.com/news/local/ashanti-billies-coworker-talks-about-accused-killer-eric-brown/492759584​

 http://wtkr.com/2017/11/20/warning-from-ashanti-billies-co-worker-it-could-have-been-me-or-anyone-else-at-the-job/ 

Updated Article:

http://wtkr.com/2017/11/30/petition-launched-for-ashanti-billies-blimpie-coworkers-who-say-they-were-fired-after-arrest-made-in-case/