Family of man shot multiple times and left for dead calls on killer to turn themselves in

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis family is seeking answers about who killed their loved 28-year-old Robert Woods as he was riding his bike down a street on the northeast side of the city.

Police were called to 29th and Ralston Avenue around 10 p.m. on April 26 after a driver noticed Woods lying in the road next to a bike.

Woods had been shot multiple times.

“He was verbal enough to speak with the witness that was on scene that found him and tell him ‘call my brother and my sister,'” Robert’s sister, Travena Woods, said.

Travena answered that call and made her way to the hospital where her brother died two days later.

“He’s always smiling and laughing. Like he was just a joyful person,” Woods said. “That’s why it shocks everybody anybody, it shocks me.”

Robert’s family said he kept to himself which makes his killing even more puzzling and devastating.

“Robert really was a good person and he was of the way he didn’t really bother nobody,” Robert’s cousin, Latisha Martin, said. “So for someone to do this to him it just really hurts.”

It’s left his family with so many questions for the person responsible.

“What type of anger did you have towards him to where you had to shoot him so many times?” Woods questioned. “Like you over-killed him. So what was that reason for that? That’s what I wanna know. Why did you do that?”

Police on scene said they had very little to go on. Robert’s family is hoping neighbors will come forward with detectives about what they heard or saw.

Better yet, they’d like whoever killed their brother to turn themselves in.

“We want you to at least turn yourself in. We want to know why you did it,” Martin said. “What for? What did he do to you? Why would you do what you did to him?”

No arrests have been announced by IMPD.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Steven Gray at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475. You can also call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-8477 to remain anonymous.

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