On the evening of January 2, 2025, a gun sale on the southeast side of Indianapolis turned violent in the 3200 block of Capsella Lane, near South Arlington and Troy avenues. Police were called shortly before 9 p.m.; officers found three men with gunshot wounds. Twenty-nine-year-old Sebastian Prayer Jones was pronounced dead at the scene, and two other men were taken to hospitals in critical condition.

Investigators say the confrontation began during the attempted firearm transaction and escalated from a physical fight to gunfire. Five people were believed to be inside the house; two escaped through a window. Multiple firearms were recovered. In the weeks after the shooting, 21-year-old Hayden Dedrick — who had been questioned that night and released — was arrested with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Task Force and charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of aggravated battery. Detectives say Dedrick fired at Jones while trying to protect a friend, accidentally wounding that friend, then left for ammunition, returned, and shot a third person.

The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office later ruled Jones’s death justifiable as defense of another. Jones’s father said his son had struggled with addiction and had been released from jail on a drug charge two days before his death; the family remembered him as loving, generous, and creatively talented. Does anyone have information about that night or knew Sebastian and the people involved?