Christopher Eugene Hoefling was 20 when he was killed in Evansville, Indiana, on the evening of December 18, 2017. He had been in a red Hyundai Sonata with a friend, Brandon Waldroup, parked behind a local bar when what began as a drug transaction turned into a violent carjacking. Waldroup was shot and left critically wounded in the parking lot; the assailant drove off in the Hyundai with Christopher still inside.

The car was recovered the next day. Christopher was found dead in the passenger seat with multiple gunshot wounds. Detectives identified two suspects, Earl Bernard Martin and Jalil Fellows, and concluded Fellows had arranged for Waldroup to sell marijuana to Martin. Phone records tied Martin to the robbery and shootings.

Fellows was arrested days after the incident and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, receiving a five-year sentence. In February 2019 a jury convicted Martin on charges including murder, attempted murder, robbery and kidnapping; he was sentenced to 135 years in prison. Does anyone have information about Christopher’s activities that night or about the bar where they were parked?