Seventeen-year-old Amari Cooper was shot and killed after midnight on November 1, 2025, at a Halloween party on Old Plank Road in Charlotte, North Carolina. A senior at West Charlotte High School, Amari was an honor roll student planning to graduate early and ran a small hairstyling business. She was also the mother of a two-year-old daughter.

Amari was hit by a stray bullet and was found by emergency responders at about 12:26 a.m. Paramedics transported her to a nearby hospital, where she died of her injuries. Her younger sister was present and tended to her immediately after she was struck.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Homicide Unit is handling the case; detectives processed the scene and asked the public for information. No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified. If anyone has information about the shooting or was at the party that night, please come forward.