Jyir Lynn Oehene Billups, 22, was fatally shot on the evening of Friday, April 7, 2023, in Indianapolis. The shooting happened at a gas station at 34th Street and Emerson Avenue on the city’s east side. Billups was walking outside the gas station when he was struck in the back by gunfire; he was taken to a nearby hospital and later died of his injuries.

Family members remembered Jyir as a respectful, kind man — a self-described man of faith who worked in construction and as a caregiver. The shooting at that gas station was the first of three separate homicide investigations at the same location within a three-week period, a detail that has increased community concern.

The investigation into Jyir Billups’s death remained ongoing and no arrests had been announced. Anyone with information about the case is asked to come forward.