India Kager

India Kager, 27, a Navy veteran, mother, and U.S. Postal Service worker, was shot and killed by Virginia Beach SWAT officers on September 5, 2015, when they opened fire on her car in a 7-Eleven parking lot after her passenger, Angelo Perry — the father of her four-month-old son, who was in the backseat — fired at approaching officers. Police, who had been surveilling Perry as a homicide suspect, fired approximately 30 rounds into the vehicle within about nine seconds; Kager had no criminal history and no known involvement in Perry's activities. Her infant son survived uninjured. Virginia Beach's Commonwealth's Attorney declined to charge any of the four officers in March 2016, calling the shooting justified and confirming Kager herself was not engaged in any illegal activity. In 2018, a civil jury found two of the four officers liable for gross negligence, awarding her family $800,000. No one has ever been criminally charged in Kager's death.

Virginia Beach, VA

• 2015: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The surveillance of Perry, the confrontation in the 7-Eleven parking lot, and the approximately 30 rounds fired into the vehicle, per Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney Colin Stolle's public findings and subsequent civil trial testimony.
• Perry fired first at officers; four SWAT officers returned fire, and Kager was struck by an estimated seven or eight bullets, some of which may have passed through Perry's body first, per autopsy findings.
• Commonwealth's Attorney Stolle announced in March 2016 that no charges would be filed against any of the four officers, while separately confirming there was no information that Kager herself was involved in any illegal activity.
• Kager and Perry's four-month-old son, in the backseat throughout the shooting, was unharmed and briefly placed in the care of Child Protective Services.
• Kager's parents filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit against the officers in 2017; in August 2018 a civil jury found two of the four officers grossly negligent and awarded the family $800,000, while clearing the other two officers.
• Kager's case became part of the African American Policy Forum's #SayHerName campaign, which highlights Black women killed by police whose cases receive comparatively less public attention.

• Whether officers took adequate account of Kager's presence and her infant son's presence in the vehicle before opening fire with roughly 30 rounds has never been resolved beyond the split civil verdict finding two of four officers grossly negligent.
• The precise number of the 30 rounds fired that struck Kager directly, versus those that passed through Perry first, was estimated from autopsy evidence but not established with certainty.
• Why the criminal review concluded the shooting was fully justified while a later civil jury found half the officers involved grossly negligent over the same underlying conduct has not been reconciled in any single public accounting.

• Amnesty International USA — “India Kager Case Raises Serious Concerns About Excessive Force by Police”
• WTKR — “Charges will not be filed in Virginia Beach officer-involved shooting”
• 13News Now — “Jury awards India Kager's family $800K in wrongful death lawsuit”
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs