Jarrell Lamont Pryor, 26, was shot and killed in Indianapolis on January 25, 2025, after what investigators say was a planned ambush. Pryor, a devoted single father who had just finished a warehouse shift, believed he was meeting a woman he connected with on Instagram for a date. He and 19-year-old Alexis Hawkins visited a McDonald’s and a liquor store before the meeting turned deadly.

Around 1:15 a.m., police found Pryor outside his vehicle near East 49th Street and North Primrose Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries. Investigators reported digital evidence, including text messages, that they say showed the meeting had been coordinated as a robbery.

Authorities arrested Alexis Hawkins on February 26 and charged her with murder and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury; 18-year-old Brian Winston Jr. was identified as the suspected shooter and was taken into custody on April 2; a third person, Malachi Wells, was arrested on November 3 on an active warrant related to the same crime. Pryor’s family and his three-year-old daughter were left to grieve a life described as hardworking and devoted.

Does anyone who knew Jarrell or who was in the East 49th Street area that night have information to share?