Jerica Mitchell

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning in Indianapolis, the life of 26-year-old Jerica Mitchell was tragically cut short. On October 6, 2021, patrol officers discovered a vehicle sitting silently in an empty field off of East Troy Avenue. Inside, they found Jerica, who had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. Her death marked another grim statistic in a city grappling with a rising tide of violence, but for her family, it was an intimate and devastating loss.

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