In the summer of 2023, 19-year-old Elijah Martin of Indianapolis arranged a gun sale or trade that ended in his death. On July 12 he met with Jeremiah Shanks—who had previously dated Martin’s sister—at the Brownstone Apartments on North Meridian Street. Around noon officers were summoned to the complex and found Martin in the courtyard with a gunshot wound to the chest; he told officers his sister’s ex-boyfriend shot him. Martin was taken to the hospital and later died from his injuries.

Security cameras showed 18-year-old Jeremiah Shanks and 18-year-old Adrian Bond Jr. walking into the building with Martin and stumbling out a minute later; they left in possession of a firearm that had not been visible when they entered. Detectives tied social media posts and recorded conversations to the firearms and to Bond’s role, and learned Shanks had been on probation for a prior armed carjacking and had removed his GPS monitor a month earlier.

Does anyone have information about Elijah, his movements that day, or the people involved that could help clarify what happened?