On November 10, 2019, 18-year-old Joachim Rates was shot and killed on the far east side of Indianapolis after arriving at a residence on Tina Marie Circle. He had been driving a newly purchased black Cadillac and was dropping off his cousin. The two had stopped at a Speedway near Washington Square Mall, where they noticed people they recognized following them from the store. Neighbors reported hearing gunfire; witnesses saw two men run away. Rates was found next to his vehicle, critically wounded, and told his cousin they got him before losing consciousness. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Rates’s wallet, containing cash he had displayed on social media, and his nine-millimeter pistol were missing from the scene. Police collected his phone and say they have names of potential suspects, but detectives have not been able to secure a witness willing to testify, and no arrests or charges have been made. His parents, Tammie and William Rates, have asked the public for information.

If anyone has information about Joachim’s movements that evening or the people who followed the Cadillac, please share what you know.