Nekia Nichelle Hyler was 31 and living with her daughter at the Stepping Stones Women’s Shelter in Michigan City when she told her case manager on the morning of April 13, 2015, she feared she might be pregnant and said she had a premonition it might be the last time anyone saw her alive. Later that day she visited a friend, took a call from a man identified as Alan Cornelius Landry, left and drove to a secluded alley in the 300 block of Holliday Street. Her body was found inside her parked vehicle on April 14, 2015; an autopsy determined she died from a single gunshot wound.

Detectives focused on Alan Cornelius Landry after inconsistencies in his statements and GPS data placing Hyler’s car in the alley. A photo Hyler sent before her death showed a man consistent with Landry, and ballistics from the fatal bullet were consistent with a type of revolver he was known to possess. Landry was arrested in December 2016 in Kentucky, extradited to Indiana, tried and convicted of murder; he was sentenced as a habitual offender to a lengthy prison term and his appeal arguing insufficiency of evidence was denied.