On May 3, 2014, Gary Wayne Barbour Jr., 29, was found dead in the backyard of his apartment at a public housing complex in Muncie, Indiana. Police arrived after reports of gunfire and the Delaware County Coroner determined Barbour suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The discovery was made at about 2:50 a.m., and his death was recorded as the city’s first homicide of 2014.

Investigators quickly identified a person of interest and arrested a Muncie man within days; by May 5, 2014, that person had been charged with murder. Reports state the shooting was not random. In January 2015 the accused entered a guilty plea to the murder charge. Barbour was a father of three, worked in a foundry, had attended Ivy Tech, and was known by nicknames including Lil Gary and G Baby. He had been released from prison in 2013 and was rebuilding his life in Muncie.