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On the morning of September 8, 2014, 24-year-old Jason Pedro was shot and killed around 6:15 a.m. while inside a Dodge Dakota at a Chase bank ATM near Michigan Street and King Avenue on Indianapolis’ Westside, directly across from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s West District offices. The Marion County Coroner later ruled his death a homicide from multiple gunshots to the head.

Police arrested 27-year-old James L. Schlenkert at the scene; he told investigators Pedro tried to rob him and that he shot in self-defense. Officers released Schlenkert the same day, citing insufficient evidence to detain him, but the case was later presented to a grand jury and he was indicted on a murder charge. Pedro’s mother, Cynthia, disputes the self-defense account, saying her son was fleeing when he was shot multiple times and then shot three more times in the head after he fell.

What details about that morning might still clarify which version of events is accurate?