This undated photo provided by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department shows Malik Halfacre. AdMears said that while the case “breaks your heart” the toughest part for him as a father of two young children is Eve Moore's killing. She didn’t have anything to do with the stimulus check, she didn't have anything to do with the money and she lost her life. And if that doesn’t break your heart I don’t know what will,” he said at a news conference. Mears said the case is eligible for the death penalty because there were multiple victims, a robbery allegedly occurred and a child was killed.

It says that Halfacre told officers following his arrest Sunday evening that he and his girlfriend — identified only as “J.M." — “were arguing because he wanted some of her stimulus check." Wendy Johnson, a cousin of Halfacre’s girlfriend, told WXIN-TV that the day before the shootings Halfacre demanded half of his girlfriend’s $1,400 pandemic stimulus check, but her cousin refused. “She had just got her money, and he wanted half of her money,” she told the station, citing what her cousin had said after the encounter. Officers later found Halfacre in the attic of a friend's home about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) from the shooting scene, police said.