Malachi May, 18, was shot while sitting in his truck at a gas station on Indianapolis’ east side near East 34th Street and North Emerson Avenue on the night of April 15, 2025. Officers answered an incomplete 911 call at about 11:30 p.m. and found May inside his truck with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died on April 17, 2025.

Surveillance video shows two individuals leaving the station’s store and talking with May before one of them fired a gun at point-blank range through an open window. After the shooting, May’s truck accelerated across the street and struck a retaining wall. Detectives identified 17-year-old Sir Braylon Howell as the primary suspect after examining text messages on May’s phone, information from family members, images provided by a person who said they had given May a gun to sell, and activity on a previously deactivated Instagram account. Officers located Howell at a nearby home where they recovered a jacket matching the suspect in video and matched his fingerprints to those on the truck’s driver side window.

Howell was arrested and charged as an adult with two counts of murder, robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, and dangerous possession of a firearm. Did anyone see Malachi at the gas station that night or have information about the people who approached his truck?