Ashley Masi, 24, posted an advertisement as an escort on Backpage.com, according to her mother, on the afternoon of her death.

Let us not forget fallen sister Ashley Masi, mother of three.  What happened to her was NOT her fault for trying to put food on the table.  I hope the bastard who did it is caught.  This just… I don’t have words.

Family mourns young mother killed in her Providence apartment