Aerris Mayberry was 14 when she was shot and killed in the early morning hours of March 18, 2022. The shooting happened around 5:30 a.m. at an apartment complex near East 19th Avenue and Tamarac Street, in a neighborhood between South Park Hill and North Aurora. Aerris had been spending the night at a friend’s house during spring break and was a freshman at Aurora Central High School, remembered by friends as kind and vibrant.

When officers arrived they found Aerris and a 16-year-old boy with gunshot wounds. Aerris was pronounced dead at the scene; the boy was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Her mother, Patricia Calhoun, publicly appealed for information and the family held a balloon release in Aerris’s favorite colors, blue and yellow, calling for justice.

No arrests have been publicly announced and the Denver Police Department asked anyone with information to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers. Does anyone have information that could help bring answers in Aerris’s case?