Elijah Taylor was 16 when he was found fatally shot on the afternoon of November 17, 2019, in the 3500 block of Woodfront Court at the Wildwood Village Apartments in Indianapolis. He was discovered on the grass with a PlayStation 4, its cords, and a controller nearby. An autopsy found a single gunshot wound to his upper left back was fatal.

The meeting that led to the shooting began as an attempt to buy a PlayStation 4 for $200 arranged through the OfferUp app. Elijah and another teenager, 16-year-old Dejuan Taylor, went to meet the seller. An attempted robbery was reported when one of the teenagers allegedly produced a firearm; the seller fled, heard gunshots, retrieved his own gun and fired one or two shots back. Investigators could not determine who fired the bullet that killed Elijah.

Police arrested Dejuan Taylor and charged him as an adult with murder, robbery resulting in bodily injury, and dangerous possession of a firearm. A jury found Dejuan Taylor not guilty on all charges after a four-day trial in May 2022, and he was released.

If anyone has information about Elijah, his movements that day, or the meeting at Wildwood Village Apartments, please share what is known.