Kaleiah Veloise-Mae Dean, 14, was killed by gunfire on the evening of Thursday, November 16, 2023, near 32nd Street and Emerson Avenue in Indianapolis. Officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrived about 7:30 p.m. and found Kaleiah unresponsive; the Marion County Coroner’s Office pronounced her dead at the scene. A teenage boy was also seriously wounded in the same shooting and taken to a hospital.

Kaleiah was a student at Arsenal Tech High School. Her death came amid a string of youth homicides in the city that month and reopened a family tragedy: an older sister had been shot and killed in May 2021. Family and friends held a balloon release to mourn and call for an end to the violence.

No arrests have been announced and police have not identified suspects; the investigation remains open. If anyone has information that could assist investigators, please come forward.