15-year-old honor student shot dead in Northwood; 18-year-old charged

People reports that Symini Rai Moore, 15, was killed Jan. 23 after being shot inside an apartment in Northwood, Ohio, and that 18-year-old Jakob Heintzelman has been arrested and charged with reckless homicide. Police told WTVG and The Toledo Blade officers arrived late that evening to find Moore with a gunshot wound; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer said four people were in the apartment — Moore, Heintzelman, Heintzelman's girlfriend and another male — and that Heintzelman claimed he was cleaning his gun when it discharged. A GoFundMe created to help the family says Moore was an honor-roll student at Woodmore High School who participated in many activities and worked at the family’s restaurant; the page reads that her smile "lit up a room." The Toledo Blade reported that Moore’s death has sent shockwaves through Woodville, and Christy Donnell, her former preschool teacher, told the Blade Moore was "a good kid.

Very sweet, very kind." Online jail records show Heintzelman is being held on a reckless homicide charge with bond listed at $85,000; WBNS reported he was arraigned Monday, when a judge set bond at $75,000 and ordered electronic monitoring if he is released. The GoFundMe page says Moore dreamed of becoming an OB nurse and was counting down the days to get her driver’s permit; she is survived by her mother, sisters and brothers.