Fifteen-year-old Jada Rankin was fatally shot on October 16, 2016, outside her grandmother’s home on Ardmore Street in Detroit during a gathering for her brother’s birthday. Jada was struck in the abdomen after a driver, reportedly speeding up and down the residential street, stopped, exited the vehicle, and fired multiple shots into the crowd. She was taken to a nearby hospital and died a short time later.

Jada was a standout student at Sterling Heights High School with a 4.0 GPA, served as the football team’s kicker, and had recently been nominated for homecoming queen. The suspect fled the scene in a gray or silver sedan, possibly a mid-2000s Chevrolet Impala or Lumina. Despite public pleas from her family and Crime Stoppers rewards, the case remains unsolved.

A playground at Sawyer Park in Detroit was renamed the Jada Rankin Playground in her memory. If anyone has information that could lead to the shooter, please come forward.