On April 30, 2022, 16-year-old Neiko McIntyre was fatally shot in the early hours on Orville Drive near North Detroit Avenue in Toledo, Ohio. A student at Whitmer High School, McIntyre was found with at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene; the Lucas County coroner later determined he had been shot at least eight times and ruled the death a homicide.

The killing was reported as Toledo’s 14th homicide that year and the sixth in one week, underscoring a spike in violence at the time. No arrests have been announced and the investigation remains open. McIntyre’s father, Christopher McIntyre, has since joined the city’s Save Our Community violence intervention program and is publicly advocating to prevent further loss of young lives.

If anyone has information about Neiko’s killing or was in the Orville Drive and North Detroit Avenue area that night, please share what you know with Toledo police.