On the evening of January 26, 2024, 19-year-old Julius Kende Parker Jr. was found fatally shot in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked on Spring Wind Lane on Indianapolis’ southeast side. Officers responded to a report of a person shot around 7:45 p.m.; Parker was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 8 p.m., about a week after his birthday. Preliminary findings indicate the shooting was a targeted attack.

The shooter or shooters fled the scene in another vehicle and no witnesses to the actual shooting were identified. No descriptions of suspects or their vehicle had been released and investigators had not named any persons of interest in the months after the killing. Known as Kiki, Parker was a Franklin Central High School graduate, a two-sport varsity athlete in football and wrestling, and had recently attended Ball State University.

Anyone with information about that night or who knew Julius is asked to come forward.