Tyvon Moore, 19, was still alive when Indianapolis officers were dispatched before dawn on April 25, 2022, to a home on North Gray Street near East Washington Street and the Rural Street area. He was a White male. Inside the residence, police found him suffering from gunshot wounds, the kind of injury that turns a quiet house into a crime scene in seconds, and medics rushed him to the hospital in critical condition. He didn’t survive.
As daylight reached the near east side, investigators treated the shooting as a homicide and began the slow work of piecing together who had been in that home and what had unfolded in those minutes before the 911 call. Early public updates offered only the bare outline: a call for a person shot, a victim located inside, and a death that added to a violent stretch of days in the city. Authorities said the investigation remained active, led by an IMPD homicide detective, while they asked anyone with information to come forward.
In the days that followed, police and prosecutors identified a suspect and moved the case into the courts. David Villanueva, 19, was arrested in connection with Moore’s killing, and the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office filed a murder charge tied to the April 25 shooting death. Public statements emphasized that the charge was an accusation and that the defendant was presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
What made it into public view at the time was the framework of the case rather than the fine detail—where it happened, when it happened, and who was accused. News reports noted that additional specifics about what led to the shooting were not released in those initial updates, leaving the larger story—motive, precise sequence of events, and the moments that brought Moore and the alleged shooter to the same doorway—largely for investigators and later court proceedings to establish.
Away from the police tape and headlines, an obituary remembered Moore as “Ty,” born in Indianapolis and connected to the Greenwood area, a young man with family, classmates, and a life that had been moving forward until it abruptly stopped on April 25. The criminal case, meanwhile, centered on the allegation that his death was not an accident but an act of violence—an accusation prosecutors formally attached to Villanueva when they filed the murder charge.
