Bryant Keith Melton Jr., 26, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of February 18, 2024, on Indianapolis’s northwest side. Officers found him about 5:40 a.m. in the driver’s seat of a car parked in the 5700 block of Little Creek Drive at the Aspen Chase Apartments near West 56th Street and Moller Road; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Marion County Coroner’s Office later confirmed his identity.

Born February 10, 1998, Melton graduated from Pike High School in 2016 and attended Indiana State University. He worked with individuals with special needs and in warehousing. Family and friends remembered him for his love of music and art and as a loving son, caring sibling, and an uncle to three nieces and seven nephews.

Police have not released a motive or identified any suspects, and the IMPD Homicide Office and Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana are asking anyone with information to come forward. Does anyone have information about Bryant or the shooting that could help investigators?