On October 8, 2014, two fatal shootings were discovered within blocks of one another on Indianapolis’s east side. Police responding to the 3300 block of North Wallace Avenue found Dominic Amey Jr. deceased outside; officers then entered a nearby vacant house and found 32-year-old Eric Travelle Mathis inside, also suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Authorities treated the two deaths as separate investigations despite the close timing and proximity.

Mathis was a Black man who left behind a large family: his parents, Charley and Rosa Mathis; brothers Carlos and Travis; sisters LaShonya, LaTasha, and LaTara; and sons who share his name. The family held a memorial at Williams & Bluitt Funeral Home. In the days after the shootings a news crew covering a prayer vigil for Amey was robbed and their vehicle taken, but police did not link that carjacking to Mathis’s death.

If anyone knew Eric, his movements that morning, or saw activity near the vacant house on October 8, 2014, please come forward with any information.