by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Mar 17, 2021 - 08:03 AM
An Indianapolis man killed three adults and a child following an argument over dividing a stimulus check, according to a probable cause affidavit, viewed by CNN.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a woman shot on Saturday night. She told officers there were more victims. At another residence, officers found three adults and a child shot to death (7-year-old Eve Moore, 23-year-old Daquan Moore, 35-year-old Anthony Johnson, and 44-year-old Tomeeka Brown).
Detectives discovered that Malik Halfacre, 25, who wounded the initial victim, Jeanettrius Moore (his baby mother), was also responsible for the quadruple murder. He fled the scene with his 6-month-old daughter, the affidavit said.
An Indianapolis man has been arrested for shooting the mother of his child and killing four of her family members, including her 7-year-old daughter, following a dispute over the US coronavirus stimulus check.
The man, Malik Halfacre, 25, was arrested on Sunday, March 14, a day after the shootings, and is expected to face murder, robbery, and attempted-murder charges, according to the police and Indiana jail records.
After 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, police received a report of a person shot in a home on North Randolph Street. There, the police said, officers found a woman who was taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. That victim told the police that there were additional victims at another home, also on North Randolph Street.
An argument over a stimulus check led to four people s deaths. A 25-year-old man shot the mother of his child and four of her relatives after he allegedly demanded to get half of a $1,400 stimulus check.
A day before Malik Halfacre allegedly shot his baby s mother, Jeanettrius Moore, and her family, he demanded to get the half from Moore. Moore worked all year at a beauty shop to provide for her two children, while Halfacre did nothing to help, according to a Crime Online report. He wanted some of Jeanettrius tax money, stimulus money, Wendy Johnson, a cousin, told Fox59.
Halfacre Confirms To Police He Killed Family Members Over COVID Stimulus Money
INDIANAPOLIS The man arrested in the Saturday fatal shootings of a 7-year-old girl and three relatives admitted to police that he killed them and that he took the money, purse and car of his child’s mother before trying to get out of town, court documents obtained Tuesday by News 8 reveal.
Mailk Halfacre, 25, faces preliminary charges of murder, attempted murder and robbery. He remained in the Marion County Jail, and no formal charges were listed in online court records on Tuesday.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were initially called to the intersection of New York and Randolph streets around 8:15 p.m. Saturday where they found a woman identified to News 8 by family as Jeanettrius Moore. She had been shot and was taken to a hospital, where she told police more victims were in a home on Randolph. She told police that Halfacre was her boyfriend and the father of her 6-mo
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