Young mom, 24, shot dead ‘after telling Black Lives Matter protesters “all lives matter” during argument about movement’
A YOUNG mom was shot dead in Indianapolis in front of her fiancé after an argument about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jessica Doty Whitaker was walking with her partner Jose Ramirez and two friends at 3am on July 5 when they came across four men and a woman and an argument broke out.
"I'll never probably ever get that image out of my head of what happened," Ramirez told the local news station.
According to Ramirez, the groups got into a racially charged argument, and one man pulled out a gun, and so Ramirez did too.
One article, published by the Daily Wire, reported that Doty Whitaker had said "all lives matter" to the group, who allegedly were supporters of the BLM movement.
"'Yes that is accurate,' Doty said when asked if his daughter said 'all lives matter' during the argument about BLM."
"I just want the people who are responsible to be held accountable."
"We are asking for you to donate whatever you can to help our family give her the most beautiful service she deserves," the page reads.
"Also to help with the beautiful son she left behind. That was her pride and joy."
On Facebook, Doty Whitaker's father, Robert J Doty Sr, called for justice for his daughter and said he believes the killing "is considered a hate crime".
A comment posted onto Doty Sr's page by a woman calls for "more than justice".
"Demand BLM be labeled a terrorist organization," Elizabeth Lopez wrote on Doty Sr's page.
"I agree totally," Doty Sr responded.
The dad also posted a picture showing a recent tattoo of his daughter's name across his shoulder, along with a quote that read: "Have you ever missed someone so much that even the thought of them made you cry."
Police are still investigating and searching for suspects.