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In the summer of 2016, 18-year-old DayRon Staten of Indianapolis was found inside a vehicle in the 3300 block of Robson Street on the night of July 19, having been fatally shot. A 21-year-old woman, Valencia Standberry, was in the same car and was also shot and critically wounded but survived. Authorities linked the killing to a broader crime spree that targeted the city’s east side.

Investigators identified two suspects after a woman reported she had been robbed and shot the previous night and identified them in a photo lineup. Those suspects were 16-year-old Zion Smith and 18-year-old Jaquisha Love; police say evidence from Staten’s murder scene supported the connection. Hours after Staten was killed, the pair were allegedly involved in another shooting on Wallace Avenue that wounded three people; Smith was reported to have suffered an eye injury in that incident.

If anyone knew DayRon, Valencia, or has information about the incidents on Robson Street or Wallace Avenue, please come forward with what was seen or heard that night.