Desijuan Berry was 20 when he was shot and killed in New Albany, Indiana, on July 4, 2022. The shooting happened just after 11 p.m. in the 1300 block of Bono Road after Berry had been at a cookout with friends. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died in the ambulance before reaching University of Louisville Hospital.

Known to family as D.J., Berry was a New Albany High School graduate and an aspiring rapper and musician. His mother, Misti Kidwell, had herself been the recent victim of a separate domestic shooting months earlier. The New Albany Police Department arrested 18-year-old Nicholas Bowerman and charged him with voluntary manslaughter; the motive remains unclear, and Berry’s family said they did not know Bowerman.

Anyone who knew Desijuan, his movements that night, or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.