In the summer of 2022, a devastating series of crimes in Muncie, Indiana, took the lives of three family members, beginning with Kyler Ryan Musick, a 19-year-old White male. Kyler, who had a young daughter, spent much of July 12 with a new friend, Devin Xavier Myers. That day, Kyler posted a photo on Facebook of the two of them together, with handguns visible in their waistbands. Myers, a convicted felon on parole, was legally forbidden from possessing a firearm.
Later that same day, Myers shot and killed Kyler in the backyard of his home on South Pershing Drive. Myers’s then-girlfriend, Alexandra Reagan, later testified that he woke her up and confessed, saying "something had gone wrong and he had killed Kyler." He showed her Kyler’s body and claimed the teen "made him shoot him." Reagan said she then helped Myers use Kyler’s own vehicle to dump his body in a rural area near Prairie Creek Reservoir.
The violence did not end there.
In the early hours of July 13, Myers and an accomplice, Daniel L. Jones, staged an armed home invasion at Kyler’s family residence on South Liberty Street. Prosecutors later argued the goal was to steal a safe containing drugs and other valuables. During the robbery, Myers fatally shot Kyler’s 69-year-old grandfather, Malcolm Perdue, and his 51-year-old great-aunt, Kyndra Kay Swift. Kyler’s mother managed to escape and call for help.
After Kyler’s family reported him missing, police launched a search. On July 14, two days after he was killed, his remains were found in a rural part of Delaware County. The investigation quickly led to the arrests of Myers, Jones, and Reagan. Surviving witnesses from the home invasion recognized Myers, as he had visited the house with Kyler the day before the killings.
Devin Myers was charged with three counts of murder, armed robbery, criminal confinement, and other felonies. At his trial, he claimed he shot Kyler in self-defense and tried to blame Daniel Jones for the murders of Perdue and Swift. The prosecution described Myers as a "self-admitted habitual liar" and a "cold, callous killer without conscience." Jones testified against Myers, stating he had participated in the home invasion only because he feared Myers would kill him if he refused.
In October 2024, a Delaware Circuit Court 5 jury found Devin Xavier Myers guilty of three counts of murder, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, criminal confinement, and obstruction of justice.
At his sentencing hearing in December 2024, Kyler’s mother told the court, "Devin Myers is a demon." Judge Thomas Cannon Jr. noted Myers's "distinct pattern of escalating violent offenses" before sentencing him to 251 years in prison.
