On December 14, 2023, Jalen Keashaun Young, 24, was shot during a confrontation in the parking lot of the Galley Sports Pub in Elkhart, Indiana. Young, an Elkhart Memorial High School graduate who played football, basketball and baseball and had worked for more than six years at Crystal Clear Pools in Osceola, was taken to a local hospital where he died of his wounds. A second man, 30-year-old Michael Pike, was pronounced dead at the scene after intervening in the fight.

Police detained 22-year-old Christain Wall at the scene in a gray Ford Fusion; officers reported a handgun in the vehicle and said Wall appeared intoxicated and slow to respond. Wall told investigators he did not remember fighting or shooting anyone and was arrested on preliminary suspicion of murder and booked into the Elkhart County Jail. Young’s mother called the shooting senseless gun violence and urged people to resolve disputes without weapons.

If anyone witnessed the fight outside the Galley Sports Pub or has information about what happened that night, please share what you know.