Symini Rai Moore, 15, was killed by a gunshot in an apartment on Lakepointe Drive in Northwood, Ohio, on the night of January 23, 2026. A sophomore at Woodmore High School, she was active in cheerleading, basketball, track, volleyball, wrestling, choir and FFA, worked at her family’s restaurant Granny’s Kitchen, and hoped to become an OB nurse. Lake Township officers arrived just after 10:45 p.m. and pronounced her dead at the scene.

An 18-year-old man, Jakob Heintzelman, was in the apartment with his girlfriend, another male, and Symini. Heintzelman told investigators the firearm discharged accidentally while he was cleaning it and was initially charged with reckless homicide. A grand jury later indicted him on reckless homicide plus weapons and underage alcohol charges. Heintzelman pleaded guilty to reckless homicide with a firearm specification, improper transportation of a firearm in a motor vehicle, carrying a concealed weapon, and an underage alcohol violation; additional guilty pleas in a separate matter involving illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material were also entered, and he was sentenced to 11.5 years and classified as a Tier II sex offender.

Did anyone in Northwood or Woodmore see Symini that night or have information about the events at the Lakepointe Drive apartment?