INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating after a teenager was killed in a shooting on Indianapolis' northeast side early Monday morning.
IMPD officers responded to the Avondale Meadows apartment complex in the 3800 block of Cooper Square Court, near the intersection of East 38th Street and North Sherman Drive, around 1:15 a.m. for a report of a person shot.
Police arrived and found a girl on the ground in the parking lot. Medics took her to a hospital in critical condition, but she died shortly after arriving to the hospital. The Marion County Coroner's Office identified her as 16-year-old Katrina Strowder.
Lynnette Strowder was asleep and did not know her daughter was not home early Monday.
"Words can't explain how I feel. I'm still going through the phase where I haven't really wrapped my head around it. I'm still trying to figure it out. It's unexplainable," Lynnette said. "I wake up today and know she ain't here, it's like waking up in the nightmare, and I'm still in it. So, we just want justice. Anybody got any information, speak up."
According to a spokesperson with IMPD, the suspect in the shooting was identified, detained, interviewed and released pending further investigation. Katrina's mother told 13News, her daughter knew the person who shot her.
The family will hold a candlelight vigil as well as a balloon release Wednesday night at the site of the shooting. It will be at 8 p.m. at 3817 Cooper Square Court in the Avondale Meadows Apartments.
Police said there is no active threat to the public.
Anyone with information about this incident should contact Detective Steven Gray at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email him at Steven.Gray@indy.gov.