On April 29, 2022, 22-year-old Naya Ruffin was shot and killed during a home invasion at her apartment in the 5700 block of San Paulo Circle in Indianapolis. The break‑in happened around 1 a.m. when two masked men broke a sliding glass door. Ruffin was asleep on the couch after an argument with her boyfriend, who was in the bedroom with their one‑year‑old daughter. Her boyfriend was confronted, subdued at gunpoint and restrained while the intruders demanded valuables and took items from a safe. A gunshot was heard during the robbery; Ruffin was found in the hallway with a gunshot wound to the chest and later died at a hospital despite a neighbor’s attempt to render aid.

The case remained unsolved for nearly two years until DNA from blood on the safe and under the boyfriend’s fingernails matched Octavionn Long, who was 19 at arrest and already incarcerated on unrelated charges. In November 2024 the Marion County Prosecutor charged Long with murder, burglary resulting in serious injury and robbery resulting in serious injury. Court documents link him to a prior incident involving Ruffin’s boyfriend from June 2021. A second suspect has not been identified.

Did anyone in the area know the victims or see suspicious activity near San Paulo Circle that night?