Ayania Starr Coker was 20 when she was shot in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the afternoon of Sunday, December 5, 2021. She was driving near the intersection of Eckart and Reed Streets when someone in another vehicle opened fire, striking her and causing her car to crash into a parked vehicle on Euclid Avenue. Emergency services found her critically injured; she was taken to a local hospital and died the next day, Monday, December 6, 2021.

The Allen County Coroner’s Office ruled her death a homicide and listed it as the 44th such case in Fort Wayne and Allen County that year. The Fort Wayne Police Department investigated the shooting, but the person or persons responsible have not been identified and no arrests have been announced.

If anyone saw the shooting, the crash, or has information about who was in the other vehicle that day, please come forward.