Seventeen-year-old Ariyonna Fountain was fatally shot outside her home on Ogden Street in Greensboro, North Carolina on the evening of April 1, 2023. She had been attending a family gathering and was on the front porch shortly before 10 p.m. when an unknown number of suspects fired multiple shots toward the house. Ariyonna was struck and succumbed to her injuries early the next morning.

A student at Grimsley High School, Ariyonna was active in choir and described by family as a light in everyone’s life with hopes that included growing closer to God, buying her first car by 18, and graduating high school. Friends and classmates held a private memorial at Grimsley, and students from Grimsley and Page staged a walkout on April 5, 2023, to protest gun violence.

The Greensboro Police Department says the investigation is active and no arrests or suspects have been announced. If anyone has information that could help solve Ariyonna’s killing, please contact the Greensboro Police Department.