On the morning of October 30, 2017, at about 1:20 a.m., gunfire on the 1500 block of South Goodlet Avenue in Indianapolis left 45-year-old Veronica D. Hayes dead at the scene. Officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department found Hayes, an African-American woman, with apparent gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead there.

Veronica was a mother of four who worked in customer service and was remembered by friends and family as easygoing and kind. Detectives’ processing of the scene was briefly interrupted when an accidental attic fire started; the Indianapolis Fire Department determined a blanket placed too close to a lamp caused the blaze and that it was unrelated to the homicide.

If anyone knew Veronica, saw activity around South Goodlet Avenue that night, or has information that could help, please come forward to investigators.