On the evening of August 20, 2005, 20-year-old William Stryker Sircy was shot while meeting someone to try to peacefully resolve an ongoing dispute on Indianapolis’ west side. Sircy, a Ben Davis High School graduate and former state champion football player who wrote lyrics and cruised in a Chevy Caprice with the Yung Vets 317 Car Club, went with friends to meet a man known on the street as Little Mike. Sircy and Little Mike walked away to talk; later his friends found him in a building with three gunshot wounds to the upper body. He died after surgery at the hospital.

Investigators have identified Little Mike as the primary person of interest: a Black male about 18 years old in 2005, roughly 6 feet 1 inch, thin build, light to medium complexion, southern accent, and someone who frequented the Pebble Point Apartments. No arrest has been announced and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Unsolved Homicide Unit continues to pursue leads. A reward is being offered for information that could help resolve the case.

Did anyone on the west side that night remember seeing Little Mike or William Sircy near the Pebble Point Apartments?