Fifteen-year-old Janiya Carr, a student at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, was reported missing on October 30, 2023, after failing to return to her family’s home at the Carriage House East Apartments. Her mother last spoke with her on Friday, October 27. A walker found Janiya’s body on November 1 in a wooded area behind the apartment complex; investigators determined she had sustained injuries consistent with a gunshot wound.

Investigators focused on a suspect who worked where the family lived. Surveillance footage from the early morning of October 28 reportedly shows Janiya getting into a Kia Optima registered to 34-year-old maintenance worker Tevis Walker, and the vehicle was later recorded driving to the wooded area where her body was found. Walker was arrested on November 2 and charged with one count of murder; a judge ordered him held without bond. The apartment management said Walker had passed state and national background checks before being hired.

Does anyone who lived at or visited Carriage House East Apartments in late October 2023 have information about Janiya, the Kia Optima, or activity around the complex that could help clarify what happened?