Alayna Ortiz

In the winter of 2019, the life of 18-year-old Alayna Ortiz was tragically cut short in a burst of violence that was not intended for her. On the evening of January 9th, the Portage High School senior was a passenger in a red SUV in a Griffith, Indiana, apartment complex parking lot when she was fatally shot in the head. The events of that night were set in motion by a drug debt and a robbery plan that went horribly awry.

The intended target of the violence was Ortiz’s boyfriend, who wa ...

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