INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis family is looking for answers after a woman was shot to death on the city’s west side. The killing was caught on camera but remains unsolved.
The victim was parked right in front of her own home on Lupine Drive when she was ambushed by another driver.
Home surveillance video shows the victim sitting in her blue Chevy being murdered by someone who drove up in a red Dodge. The suspect stopped for just a few seconds and fired into the parked car, then quickly drove away down the street.
That violence left the victim’s family shattered.
“She was sitting in front of her home and then to be gunned down for no reason, it’s sad. It’s devastating. She could be any of us,” said the victim’s sister Courtney Essett.
Police were called to the scene just before 7 p.m. on a Friday in early September and found the victim shot inside her car.
Kierra Dotson, known by her family as Kia, died a short time later after being taken to the hospital.
“It’s heartbreaking. It’s really horrific,” said Essett.
“It’s earth-shattering. It’s heartbreaking,” said another sister Jeria Dotson.
Both Jeria and Courtney believe their younger sister had just returned home after dropping off her teenage daughter at a friend’s house.
They don’t understand why anyone would want their sister dead.
“She wasn’t into any activity that would lead us to believe it was this person or that person that she may have wronged,” said Jeria.
“We have no idea. We don’t know how this person is connected to her and that’s one thing police were telling us is they were trying to establish a connection,” said Essett.
IMPD confirms they did locate the red Dodge seen in the video and spoke to a person of interest, but no arrests were ever made.
While Kia’s family doesn’t know what motivated the murder, they desperately want her killer charged with the crime.
“Our family is 95 days and counting and we have no answers whatsoever. It just doesn’t make sense to us,” said Essett.
Police say the case remains an active investigation.
Anyone with information about this incident should call Detective Kevin Roell at the IMPD Homicide Office at (317) 327-3475 or email the detective at [email protected].
Alternatively, they can call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at (317) 262-8477 (TIPS) to remain anonymous.
