Meghan Rose Schwab was 21 when she was found dead on October 11, 2020, inside her car after it crashed into an assisted living facility in the Castleton area of Indianapolis. She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene; an autopsy later showed she had been shot three times. Her infant daughter, then about a month old, survived but lost her mother.

Police arrested 18-year-old Jaylen Lee Smith and charged him with murder and carrying a handgun without a license. Witnesses reported seeing Smith exit the rear passenger side of Meghan’s vehicle holding a gun shortly after a shot was heard. Investigators recovered a .40 caliber handgun and spent casings inside the car, evidence that conflicted with Smith’s changing accounts; he first said he was a hit-and-run victim and later claimed an attempted robbery led to an accidental discharge.

Meghan’s family remembered her as caring, compassionate, a North Central High School graduate who volunteered at the Indianapolis Humane Society and planned a career in radiology. Does anyone with information about that night or who knew Meghan have details that could help clarify what happened?