On the evening of March 24, 2015, 52-year-old Gary Gene Gray was shot and killed during an argument at the Always Open Gas Station at 1401 N. Bendix Drive in South Bend, Indiana. Gray was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 58-year-old Emmett Calvin White when the two men got into a dispute that escalated. After the argument, White allegedly shot Gray in the chest while Gray was outside near a gas pump. Gray was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.

South Bend Police and the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit investigated. Investigators identified White as the primary suspect; a credit card purchase at the station tied him to the scene and an eyewitness positively identified him. Emmett Calvin White was arrested and charged with Gray’s murder and held at the St. Joseph County Jail without bond.

If anyone was at the gas station that evening or has information about the dispute between Gray and White, please come forward.