INDIANAPOLIS -- There’s a mural of a smiling young man on the wall of a building at 10th and Parker on Indy’s near eastside

”I want his face to be remembered forever,” said Kendia Lovelady who finished the mural of her brother Charles Lovelady, Jr., one year to the day after he died on October 12, 2024. ”My brother was loved by everyone in this neighborhood. This was his neighborhood. Everyone knows him as Chuck Junior from our coney island but he also had several properties that he owned in this area where he housed a lot of people, so he had a lot of love over here.”

Lovelady and his girlfriend were leaving Sunset Strip, a bar at 16th Street and Lafayette Road, after picking up food shortly past 3 a.m. when surveillance video caught a glimpse of a black Chevy truck making a U-turn and

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