Valentina Delva, an 18-year-old Black freshman nursing student at Indiana State University and a recent Pike High School graduate, was killed in the late hours of September 18, 2020, in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was the front-seat passenger in a car leaving an off-campus party near South 6th and Poplar streets when gunfire erupted between about 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m.; a bullet struck Delva and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other men were wounded with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Terre Haute Police Department arrested two men, 22-year-old David Farrell and 20-year-old Wesley Meadows, on charges of criminal recklessness; both were held without bond in the Vigo County Jail. No one has been directly charged with Delva’s murder and the investigation remains active. Indiana State University provided counseling services to students affected by her death.

If anyone attended that party or has information about who fired the shots that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.