Jamya Latrice Lewis was 17 when she was shot in the head on the night of December 2, 2020, in the 2800 block of South Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky, near the University of Louisville campus. Officers found her around 11 p.m.; she was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital and died shortly after 11:30 p.m. Her death was recorded as the city’s first homicide of December 2020, a month that followed a year of record-breaking violence.

Jamya was a full-time nursing student at Western Kentucky University. Family and friends remembered her as lively, outgoing, ambitious, and deeply loyal, with an infectious smile.

If anyone knew Jamya, was in the area that night, or has information that could help investigators, please come forward.