Cashapp, surveillance video and a cellphone guided police during a 14-month investigation into the killing of Clarence Holder III.
Holder, 38, died on the side of a residential street on the city’s east side, feet away from his home with five of his young children inside.
About midnight Nov. 30, 2022 Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to the neighborhood off English Avenue inside I-465 when residents in the 600 block of Woods Crossing Drive heard gunfire. Responding officers found nothing unusual.
Two hours later a man returning home from work saw something lying along the curb and stopped to investigate, finding Holder dead from a single gunshot wound to the chest, according to court documents.
At the scene, evidence technicians collected two 9mm Lugar shell casings and Holder’s Apple iPhone, which was found in a grassy area next to the curb where he died.
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Evidence on the phone, including Cashapp exchanges, Facebook messages and video chats, led police to their suspect, Cashmenn Moore, 34.