Angela Wright, 41, was found dead in the street in the 3000 block of Nowland Avenue in Indianapolis in the early morning of July 14, 2016. A fatal gunshot to the head was confirmed by autopsy and her death was ruled a homicide. She was discovered lying next to a parked red Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck.

Investigators processed the scene and recovered fingerprints on the pickup that matched a friend of Wright’s. DNA recovered from underneath Wright’s fingernails proved pivotal years later. That DNA returned a match in spring 2022 to Jaylaun Kishon Walker; fingerprints from Walker also matched those on the truck. Walker was 17 and lived less than a quarter mile from the scene at the time of the killing.

Walker, arrested in September 2022 at age 23 while already detained on unrelated armed robbery charges from June 2022, initially denied knowing Wright. When told his fingerprints and later his DNA were linked to the scene he altered his account, first suggesting car break-ins and later saying he remembered speaking with a woman in a pickup but denied any struggle or entering the vehicle. No disposition of the murder charge has been reported.

Did anyone in the neighborhood recall seeing a red Chevrolet Silverado or a young man near Nowland Avenue on the morning of July 14, 2016?