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Alayna Ortiz was 18 and a senior at Portage High School when she was killed on the evening of January 9, 2019. She was a passenger in a red SUV in the Park West Apartments parking lot in Griffith, Indiana, when a shot shattered a window and struck her in the head. She was taken to a hospital in Gary and died of her injuries.

Investigators say the shooting grew out of a planned robbery tied to a drug debt. The intended target was Ortiz’s boyfriend, who was driving the SUV; one man charged in the case, Giovante Galloway, reportedly owed the boyfriend $1,600 for marijuana. Prosecutors charged Galloway and his uncle, Juarez Rogers, with murder, armed robbery, and burglary. A third man, Elrice Williams, was later charged in connection with the killing, and authorities say at least two other people appear to have been involved but have not been publicly charged. Members of Rogers’s family were also accused of intimidating an informant who was cooperating with police.

Does anyone have information about the people who followed that SUV to the Griffith parking lot or witnessed the shooting?