INDIANAPOLIS — A 19-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced to 45 years after pleading guilty to murder and possession of a machine gun in the 2022 deadly shooting of another man on the city's east side, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office announced.
Tiyuan Johnson pleaded guilty to the charges in December 2023 in the death of 27-year-old Kevan Akbar.
On Oct. 29, 2022, IMPD officers responded to a BP gas station near East 30th Street and North Arlington Avenue for reports of a person shot. Officers found Akbar inside a car with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition but died the next morning.
Security footage from the gas station showed a car park near Akbar's vehicle. A woman exited the car, went into the gas station and then got into Akbar's car.
In the video, Johnson and another man were seen entering and exiting the gas station several times and talking to Akbar at his car. After the two men walk away and Akbar continues talking with the woman inside the car, the men come back and pull guns before Johnson shoots Akbar through the windshield, the prosecutor's office said.
A cellphone recovered at the scene near Akbar's car, where the man fired the shot that struck him, had Johnson's fingerprints on it and his photo on the home screen.
