Tyrane Del Ray McCoy, a 30-year-old Black male, was killed in a west-side Indianapolis shooting on April 4, 2026. What began as a series of urgent 911 calls about gunfire quickly turned into a homicide investigation. Dispatchers were first told about shots fired near the 800 block of South Lynhurst Drive and the 800 block of Manhattan Avenue, an area just north of West Washington Street.
When Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived, another caller reported that someone had been shot in a nearby alleyway.
Officers found McCoy suffering from gunshot wounds. He was still alive when first responders reached him, and he was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Despite the effort to save him, police said he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. The Marion County Coroner’s Office later identified him as the victim.
The shooting unfolded in the middle of the afternoon, shortly after 3 p.m., in a busy part of the west side where residential streets, alleys, and commercial corridors sit close together. Police initially described the case as a critical shooting, but after McCoy died, the investigation shifted into a homicide. Public crime mapping information for the same location and time described the incident as a shooting or stabbing response, with officers on scene confirming a person shot, the victim listed as critical, and the homicide unit notified.
Online memorial and obituary sources identify McCoy as Tyrane Delray McCoy or Tyrane Del Ray McCoy and say he was from Shelbyville, Indiana. His obituary was still pending in funeral home listings after his death, but memorial pages recorded that he died on April 4, 2026, in Indianapolis, after being lost to gun violence.
As of the available online reporting, no suspect has been publicly named and no arrest has been reported in connection with McCoy’s killing. Police asked anyone with information to contact the IMPD Homicide Office, and anonymous tips were also being directed to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana. The case appears to remain open, with investigators still looking for the person or people responsible for the gunfire that left McCoy dying in an alley on Indianapolis’ west side.
