‘How many kids is it gonna take?’: Mother of slain teen discusses Butler Tarkington double killing

INDIANAPOLIS — Jesse Quiroz and Isaiah Wilson were both 19, both 2024 graduates of Arsenal Technical High School and both always around together…in life and death.

”They did everything together. They did track together. They did baseball together. They did the mechanic program that they offer there. Everybody knew both of them,” said Robin Quiroz, Jesse’s mother. ”They’re best friends. They hang out. They talk every single day.”

So it made sense that the best friends would have been together Saturday night, most likely attending a party in Butler Tarkington before they were found shot to death at the corner of West 43^rd Street and North Cornelius Avenue shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday.

”I think that they were targeted.,” said Robin. ”I honestly feel like whoever did it walked out of that house with them and walked down the street and attempted to go to the car but then decided to do what they wanted.”

A neighbor told FOX59/CBS4 that he heard six-to-eight shots between the hours of 2 and 4 a.m. and then a car sped away down westbound 43^rd Street.

Another resident said a neighbor complained to IMPD about a loud party in the 4200 block of Cornelius in the hours before the shooting.

Robin said she would track Jesse’s cell phone which brought her to the crime scene after a resident found the bodies.

Once Jesse’s mom saw Wilson’s body in the street, she knew her son would be nearby.

”We keep getting messages after message and the things that are being said in there to me its kinda leading back to a certain individual because his name keeps getting brought up,” said Robin. “Every time somebody keeps messaging us his name gets brought up.”

Robin is looking forward to sharing those messages with IMPD detectives.

”How many kids is it gonna take to die for them to just do away with something? Do something. I don’t know. I just feel its too many people dying because of gun violence. Didn’t neither one of them deserve any of that,” she said. “They both had a long life ahead of them and now nothing. I have to go pick up my son’s belongings later from a coroner’s office.”

If you have any information about the double murder in Butler Tarkington Sunday morning, call Crime Stoppers at (317) 262-TIPS. Your call could lead to a $1,000 reward.