A man was slammed with a life sentence after he fatally shot four people , including his girlfriend's daughter, 7, in hopes of stealing his partner's stimulus check.
Malik Halfacre, 28, went on a shooting spree in 2021 over his girlfriend's stimulus check, gunning down her seven-year-old daughter and three more of her family members. The quadruple murder over $1,400 landed Halfacre a long sentence of 145 years in prison.
The victims were Eve Moore, 7, Dequan Moore, 23, Tomeeka Brown, 44, and Anthony Johnson, 35. The shooter's girlfriend, Jeanettrius Moore, also sustained a gunshot wound but survived the attack. Jeanettrius lost close loved ones: Dequan Moore was her brother, Tomeeka Brown was her mother and Anthony Johnson was her cousin.
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The blood bath occurred on Randolph Street when authorities said Halfacre was caught rummaging though his girlfriend's purse for the stimulus check she received amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Police said they found Jeanettrius in the home once they arrived to the scene, according to a probable cause affidavit. She told them Halfacre fled the scene with the pair's 6-month-old daughter soon after opening fire. It was later revealed the shooter went to his sister's house to drop off his daughter and “all of the baby’s stuff” before departing.
While there, he confessed to the shooting. “She then described how he called a friend on her phone and the friend agreed to help Mr. Halfacre get out of town,” the affidavit notes. Law enforcement officials located the shooter's friend and and waited outside the house for the suspect's friend to leave.
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They subsequently interviewed him during a traffic stop. He told them Halfacre had ducked inside his girlfriend's home on Eastridge Road. The SWAT team was deployed to extract Halfacre from the property, but he initiated an hourslong standoff.
“SWAT negotiators did attempt to make contact with him. They did attempt to get messages into the house. They made contact into the residence of letting him know that gas would be placed into the residence. They waited for him to come out. They waited over three hours as they waited for him patiently,” Genae Cook, a public information officer for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, said at the time of the standoff. “After approximately three or four hours SWAT team members made entry and located Malik Halfacre inside the residence inside the attic area. The suspect then gave up without incident.”
Authorities eventually took Halfacre into custody as he confessed to shooting everyone at the residence because he wanted a portion of Jeanettriu's stimulus check. Yolanda Graham, Eve's grandmother, said she wanted her granddaughter to be remembered as more than a gun violence victim.
"We want to lift her up, we want to lift up everybody involved because there are a lot of people involved, and we just want everybody to remember that they are people. They are not just victims, and it’s more to them than just what happened here," she said.
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