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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on 25 April 2025 that S/Sgt Junior J. Shelton has been accounted for.

Shortly after the war ended in 1945, American graves registration personnel recovered several sets of remains from field graves and foxholes around Hatterath. None were identified as Shelton. In 1946, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. In August 1947, an American Graves Registration Command investigation team went to Hatterath to search for the remains of five missing soldiers from Companies B and C of the 115th Infantry Regiment. However, none of the remains recovered could be identified as Shelton.

In 2023, a DPAA historian studying unresolved losses at Hatterath reviewed documentation related to a set of remains recovered from a field grave at Hatterath in June 1945 and buried as an Unknown at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands. The historian determined the remains could be associated to Shelton and recommended exhumation for scientific testing. In August 2024, this unknown was exhumed and transferred to a DPAA Laboratory for further study and scientific analysis. The laboratory analysis and total circumstantial evidence established the remains as those of Shelton.

S/Sgt Shelton has been given his final resting place at the Springdale Cemetery in Sebree, Kentucky on 4 October 2025.