WHITERIVER, AZ (AZFamily) — The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is offering a $5,000 reward for tips that lead to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for killing a White Mountain Apache Tribe teenager.

On Friday, the BIA announced a reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the homicide of 16-year-old Challistia Colelay. Federal officials said authorities recovered her body on Nov. 3 in Whiteriver after she had been reported missing to White Mountain Apache police on Oct. 27.

The BIA later confirmed that the death was being investigated as a homicide , explaining “foul play may have been involved.” However, detectives haven’t said what led them to believe the girl was murdered, nor what led them to Coleay’s body.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety said n

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