Dontiaunna Brown was an 18-year-old woman from Dayton, Ohio, who was shot in the neck and killed on December 16, 2017. Officers responding to an apartment on Caliph Court found her suffering from the wound and she was pronounced dead at the scene; the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office later confirmed cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck.

Dayton police launched an investigation and pursued a suspect, prompting a SWAT standoff at a home in the 1400 block of Tampa Avenue. Four people were inside that house but the suspect was not found there; one person was arrested on unrelated charges. In the days after the killing, investigators identified 19-year-old Anton Hurston Jr. as a person of interest and arrested him on unrelated charges while homicide detectives worked with prosecutors on potential charges connected to Dontiaunna’s death.

Friends and family have left balloons and candles at her apartment in her memory. If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Dontiaunna, please share what you know with investigators.