On January 6, 2004, 16-year-old Alexis Jordan was shot in Des Moines, Iowa, and died about 16 hours later. Initial reports said the shooting occurred at the home of her 16-year-old boyfriend, Cordara Cory Lewis, after a gun he was handling discharged and struck Alexis in the head. Authorities at first treated the incident as an unintentional shooting; Lewis was arrested and charged with reckless use of a firearm and involuntary manslaughter.

Witnesses told police Lewis had a history of carrying the gun and pretending to be a criminal with it. Later, the Iowa Attorney General’s office classified Alexis Jordan’s death as a domestic violence homicide, changing the official view from accidental to a killing. Before Lewis could stand trial on the revised murder charge, he died by suicide while held in a jail cell in Ohio awaiting transport back to Des Moines.

Does anyone have information about Alexis, her life, or what happened that day?