Elijah Lacey, 18, a Lawrence Central High School senior just one week shy of graduation, was found shot dead in a pickup truck in a parking lot at a liquor store Memorial Day afternoon.
Elijah LaceyOfficers said two people arrived in the parking lot of Crown Liquors in a silver Acura sedan at that time, then approached a parked pickup truck.
In the video, the two people speak to a man inside the truck. One person walks around and enters the truck on the passenger side. The person at the driver's window suddenly extends an arm into the cab, jumps away from the truck, references wildly toward the window and runs away. The person in the passenger seat also jumps out of the cab and runs away.
IMPD officers say the discovered Lacey with at least one gunshot wound inside the truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Lacey's mother, Natasha McKinley, told WISH-TV that her son's "passion was wrestling" and that he loved to teach wrestling to younger students. She also said that Elijah Lacey had wrestled for Warren Central High School, a public school on the east side of Indianapolis.
TrackWrestling.com lists Lacey as wrestling at 149 pounds.
Visitation for Elijah D. Lacey will be held Saturday, June 2 from 10:00 a.m. to noon at Overcoming Church, 2203 Columbia Ave., Indianapolis with the funeral service commencing at noon. Burial will take place in New Crown Cemetery.
Meanwhile, IMPD continues its search for the two men on the video which is available for viewing via the WISH-TV link. Viewers who recognize the individuals in the video are urged to contact Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana with anonymous tips 24 hours a day at (317) 262-8477.
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