INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man was sentenced Thursday for the 2020 shooting death of Adam Sayers on the city's east side.
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced Earon Ervin Jr. has been sentenced to 63 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
Ervin was convicted March 15 on two counts of murder and attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury.
Court documents show that in the early morning hours of Dec. 1, 2020, Ervin walked into Community East Hospital after he was shot at a home in the 1900 block of Wallace Drive, near East 21st Street and Emerson Avenue.
IMPD officers arrived at the Wallace Drive address before being quickly called to a different home around 200 feet away. Officers then found Sayers dead on the sidewalk.
Officers found a cellphone and firearm on Sayers' body. Another firearm and another cellphone were found a few feet away in the grass.
Investigators determined one of the phones found at the scene belonged to Ervin. His DNA was also linked to a bullet found in the yard.
During a search of Sayer's cellphone, police say they found text messages and photos from Ervin's girlfriend. Further investigation by police showed that Sayers had been communicating with a woman through an escort service and that those communications were also found on Ervin and his girlfriend's phones.
The prosecution argued that Ervin used the escort service to lure Sayers to the home to rob him.
