Indy unsolved victim likely targeted for a 'different Dajuan'

INDIANAPOLIS -- It was 25 years ago last night that Korey Dajuan Carter was fatally shot outside his mother's home in the 3100 block of Shick Drive on the city's northeast side.




"I did hear a shot. It didn't startle me at first until two of his friends that he was with came in and told me that Dajuan had got shot. And I was like, 'Dajuan...my son?'" said Carol Carter, who remembered she ran out to find her 16-year-old son slumped over in the front seat of his car. "He had been shot in his main artery."




Carter was a sophomore at Broad Ripple High School, which had been in session for only a few days, not really long enough for the teen to make any enemies.




"It was always said that it was a mistaken identity for someone else in the neighborhood named Dajuan," said Keyiona Carter, Dajuan's older sister. "That was all the information that we had and to this day it's still unsolved, as we all know."




Carter's friends were in his car the summer night he was shot, and they told his mother their pal was not in trouble with anyone.




"I asked his friends and it was, 'No, we don't know nothing about that,' because they always with him," she said. "They said, 'We wasn't at the basketball game. We wasn't here.' So it had to be this other guy. It wasn't my son."




The investigation ran its course without a solution, and the family said the other Dajuan had moved away.




25 years later, the slain teen's family still honors his memory in the hope that he won't be forgotten or someone will remember what happened on that Friday night a long time ago.




"Actually, this past weekend I had a Sneaker Ball in his memory, so we can celebrate his memory and we had a good time," said Keyiona.




Had he lived, Dajuan would be 41 and likely with teenage kids of his own, said his sister.




"I envy a lot of people who still have their siblings," said Keyiona.




If you know anything about the murder of Dajuan Carter in 2000 near the area of 31st Street and Emerson Avenue, call Crime Stoppers at (317) 262-TIPS. Your information could be worth a $1,000 reward.



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