Brandon Joshua Easley, an 18-year-old Black senior at KIPP Indy Legacy High School, was fatally shot just before 2 a.m. on November 23, 2025, outside a convenience store and gas station near East Michigan Street and North Sherman Drive on Indianapolis’ east side. Police say Easley was walking across the parking lot when someone in a passing vehicle opened fire toward the business; rounds pierced the storefront and struck him in the parking area. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition and did not survive. The Marion County Coroner ruled the death a homicide from gunshot wounds and formally identified him the next day as Brandon Joshua Easley.

Easley was described by family, school records, and teammates as a quiet, hard-working student-athlete who led his JV basketball team in scoring and had been preparing to play in college. A letter from Ball State University informing him of acceptance arrived for the family shortly after his death. Security footage from inside the store reportedly captured the shooting’s chaos, and investigators are treating the incident as a targeted shooting that spilled into a public space while working to identify the vehicle involved. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced.

If anyone has information about the vehicle, the shooting, or Easley’s movements that night, contact IMPD Homicide Detective Gary Toms or submit a tip through Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana.