On November 12, 1988, 23-year-old Roy Robert Washington Jr. was fatally shot in Muncie, Indiana. Known by nicknames Lil Roy and Rudabake, he was a father and lifelong Muncie resident; his parents were Roy and Geneva. Law enforcement investigated the homicide and arrested a suspect named Rosalio Hernandez.

The case proceeded to trial the following year. In 1989 a jury convicted Hernandez of murder for Washington’s death and imposed a lengthy prison sentence. While serving that sentence, Hernandez was later involved in a 1994 prison stabbing of a correctional officer and faced additional attempted murder charges and habitual offender enhancements, with the 1989 murder conviction used as a predicate offense in later proceedings.

Did anyone who knew Roy or his family in Muncie have information about his life, the shooting, or the trial that could add context to this case?