Jermea Lyle, a 26-year-old Black woman and mother, was shot and killed on the morning of September 21, 2024. She was sitting in the backseat with her 4-year-old daughter when the vehicle she was in was struck around 7:00 a.m.; the driver rushed her to Miami Valley Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators first considered a possible road rage shooting after the driver reported hearing a gunshot and seeing a blue Chevrolet and a white car leave the off-ramp from southbound Interstate 75 to westbound U.S. 35. Within days the probe shifted: authorities say the shooting stemmed from an ongoing dispute between one of the car’s passengers, a co-worker, and a man later identified as a suspect. That dispute reportedly involved about $20, and detectives say the suspect followed the vehicle to the off-ramp and fired at least two shots into it. Jermea was not the intended target and was described as an innocent bystander.

If anyone has information about the shooting, the victim, or the people involved, please share details that might help the investigation.