INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis father whose daughter fatally shot herself last summer was sentenced Thursday.
Leon’ta Anderson, 23, was sentenced April 23 to four years in prison, plus two years probation in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Harmony.
Harmony found her father’s gun on top of a shoe rack and was shot and killed July 11, 2025, in their home on Ralston Avenue in Indianapolis. Anderson took a plea deal for neglect of a dependent resulting in serious injury, a level 3 felony, instead of the level 1 felony he was originally charged with.
Background on the case
Just after noon on July 11, 2025, IMPD officers were called to Methodist Hospital on a report of a walk-in person shot. Police say they found 2-year-old Harmony Anderson dead from a gunshot wound…