Seventeen-year-old Lionel Carnell was shot and killed in Indianapolis on the evening of October 28, 2019. Police responding to a residence in the 9400 block of Stouffer Court on the city’s east side found him with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators initially considered the possibility the wound was self-inflicted, but the death was later reclassified as a homicide. The killing was recorded as the city’s 12th juvenile homicide that year. No motive or clear account of what happened inside the residence has been released, and no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

The case remains open and unsolved. If anyone has information about Lionel’s death or the events of that night, please share what is known with authorities.