In the late hours of a Tuesday night in Indianapolis, 27-year-old Mark Miller, a food delivery driver, was out on his final run for China King. It was November 3, 2015, and Miller, a White/Caucasian male, was about to become the city's 120th homicide victim of the year. He was inside his pickup truck on the Far Eastside of the city when he was fatally shot in what police would later describe as an ambush.
The investigation into Miller's death quickly focused on the origin of the food
order that had lured him to the location. Detectives traced the call to a cellphone that was found in the possession of Peter Hutchings Jr. This discovery linked Hutchings and his then-17-year-old girlfriend, Terri Williams, to the crime. Investigators determined that the pair had concocted a phony food order with the intent to rob the delivery driver.
Hutchings was subsequently arrested and faced a murder charge for his role in the fatal shooting. Williams was also charged as an adult in the case. The legal proceedings brought a measure of closure to Miller's grieving family and friends, who remembered him as a local musician whose life was senselessly cut short while he was simply doing his job.
In August of 2017, Peter Hutchings Jr. was sentenced to 75 years in prison after being convicted of murder. His sentence also included an enhancement for being a habitual offender. Terri Williams later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery and carrying a handgun without a license. She was scheduled for sentencing in September 2017.
