Janiya Carr, 15, was discovered dead on November 1, 2023. She was allegedly shot to death, and the culprit was identified as Tevis Walker, a 34-year-old maintenance worker. He claimed he took Carr to buy an iPad, but when the seller didn’t show up, he dropped her off at home and left. The suspect, according to neighbors, was the newest maintenance worker at Carriage East Apartments and had been there for about a month. Walker was arrested on November 2, the day after Janiya Carr’s remains were discovered.
Officers discovered the teen’s remains in the 10000 block of Aristocrat Drive North, near the Carriage House East apartment complex, right off 42nd Street and Mitthoefer Road. Janiya Carr, a 15-year-old girl, was discovered dead after probably being shot, and the culprit was quickly identified as Tevis Walker, an apartment complex maintenance worker. Janiya was identified as a runaway on October 28. According to Fox 59, she was spotted getting into a car at 4.30 a.m. local time, and the vehicle supposedly belonged to Walker. Surveillance footage recorded the identical automobile moving into the location where detectives ultimately discovered the youngster’s body around an hour later.
Janiya Carr was seen walking near the 4100 block of Newburgh Drive before the car drove in and she got in
It was also determined that the youngster was wearing the exact clothes she was wearing in the video when she was discovered dead. Janiya Carr was seen walking near the 4100 block of Newburgh Drive before the car drove in and she got in. Janiya’s lifeless body was discovered by a woman walking her dog in the neighborhood. Janiya’s family reported her missing on October 30, 2023, according to police records. She, however, did not receive a missing person alert.
Demetria Boston, the victim’s mother, revealed that her daughter died soon before her 16th birthday, and she told Fox 59: “I don’t know how to live with this pain.” After the suspect’s arrest on November 2, he was booked into the Marion County Jail. According to authorities, Walker left his car in the parking area and then walked to his house, which is just a few hundred feet from the alleged crime site. Boston spoke about the incident and the suspect and said, “This could have been avoided had they done a thorough background check. He shouldn’t be working here. He had a warrant. The torture of what he did to my baby is stuck in my head. I can’t sleep.”
The Gene B. Glick Company, which owns the apartment complex, issued a statement as per 13News and said: “The Gene B. Glick Company was shocked and deeply saddened by the fatal shooting of Janiya Carr, a teenage resident of Carriage House East in Indianapolis.” Walker had various arrest warrants in Alabama and Georgia, according to subsequent inquiries. He allegedly confirmed in an interview with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department that the vehicle in the surveillance footage belonged to him and that he remembered picking up the victim. The crime is still being investigated, and authorities have yet to discover the motivation for the alleged murder.