The community donated $5,000 to a GoFundMe account to help the family plan the service. Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department say Allen, 15, was abducted early in the morning August 31, while sitting outside her sister's house on N. Mount St. Police say she was driven to an abandoned home at 10th St. and Lynn St. where she was strangled. That's left them, along with family and community leaders, convinced someone with vital information simply hasn't come forward. “We get a lot of fake tips that are coming in and sometimes we feel like they’re wasting the detectives’ time and we really need this person off the streets,” Shenika Poindexter, Dominique Allen’s sister, said. "I know your conscience is bothering you, so I would ask also that you do the right thing and come forward," he said. ++ 
 
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 Like this: Like Loading... “She is with our mom now and we know that now, all of us sisters, we’ve got a little piece of both of them in us,” Mareeka Allen said. If you have any kind of information to help police, you can call IMPD or stay anonymous and call Central Indiana Crime Stoppers at (317) 262-TIPS. Allen was then set on fire behind this home in the 1100 block of Elder Ave. 
 
 "This case is one of the most significant homicides in the city this year," said Commander David Hoffman, IMPD's Southwest District.
– This summer, an Indianapolis teenager was abducted, strangled, and set on fire—a horrifying crime made all the more tragic by her story of a troubled girl gone good, the Indianapolis Star reports. Dominique Allen was 15 when someone apparently kidnapped her outside a neighbor's house, killed her on an abandoned property, and burned her body (presumably to destroy DNA evidence) in someone's backyard. Now police detectives are struggling to solve the nearly two-month-old case while people in Dominique's community march the streets, WISH-TV reports. "We're jeopardizing the community by keeping this person out there," says one of her sisters. "Somebody knows something." One thing we do know is that Allen rejected the very kind of violence that claimed her life. Distraught by her mother's death to Crohn's disease, Dominique turned angry in seventh grade and got in a fight that injured another girl. In high school, after two friends died to street violence, she turned over a new leaf and reached out to a guidance counselor for help: "Will you be my mom at school for me?" Dominique asked. Soon her algebra grades were improving and she was less downcast—but she died about a month later. "She pretty much had gone from a caterpillar to a butterfly," says her guidance counselor. Police have some sense of her killer—that he was older, knew the neighborhood, and had likely served time—but without hard evidence, the case is falling on community activists. "I know your conscience is bothering you," Dominique's uncle, a reverend, tells the killer via WXIN. "So I would ask also that you do the right thing and come forward."