When CBS4 Indy reporter Jesse Wells walked up to a quiet house on Patricia Street on Indianapolis’ west side, he wasn’t covering a mystery crime with blurry details and no human voice attached; he was talking to a man who survived a point-blank gunshot and still sounded stunned that it happened over something as dumb and fleeting as a Facebook post.
Wells framed it simply: the victim spent days in the hospital after being shot in the back of the neck inside his own home, and he believes the entire chain of violence started because he put a picture of money on social media, the kind of “flex” people post every day without thinking about who’s watching or how the wrong person might take it.
The victim, 64-year-old Anthony McNary, didn’t talk like someone trying to build a legend about himself; he sounded like a man still replaying the moment his life almost ended, telling Wells that one of the intruders “just stuck the gun straight to the back of my head and pulled the trigger,” and adding that he couldn’t believe it happened “over a fake post.”…