A 16-year-old student and athlete, Kentrell Lasaveon Ali Johnson, was fatally shot on December 13, 2024, on Indianapolis’s east side. Officers were sent shortly after 5:00 p.m. to the 800 block of Treyburn Green Drive, near South Mitthoeffer Road and East Prospect Street, and found him inside a residence with an apparent gunshot wound. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene; the Marion County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

Born May 12, 2008, in Kankakee, Illinois, Kentrell attended Warren Central High School, played football, basketball and track, and worked at a local Jersey Mike’s. His obituary described him as a protective brother and a mentor to his cousins; family and community members held visitation and a funeral in late December to remember him.

The investigation remains active and no arrests have been announced. Anyone with information is asked to contact the IMPD Homicide Office or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana. Did anyone in the community know Kentrell or see anything on the afternoon of December 13 that could help investigators?