Two-year-old Joette Malone, known as JoJo, was killed by a stray bullet in Hammond, Indiana after gunfire erupted near her family’s car on the evening of July 29, 2020. She was seated in the back of her mother’s vehicle at the Kennedy Crossing apartment complex around 9:30 p.m. and was struck in the head. Her mother and siblings in the car were physically unharmed but witnessed the shooting.

Joette was airlifted to Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago and died two days later. The Hammond Police Department and the FBI opened a homicide investigation and released a composite sketch of a person of interest described as a Black male, about 16 to 25 years old, thin build. The FBI has offered a reward for information that leads to identification and arrest.

The case remains unsolved. If anyone was at Kennedy Crossing that night or has information about the person of interest, please share what is known with investigators.