Oct 23, 2026
MUNCIE — Muncie Police have connected a man to the killing of 17-year-old Christopher Wilson Jr., the Yorktown football star found shot to death inside a vehicle last month. The department said detectives completed a probable cause affidavit Friday for 40-year-old Dairus E. Thompson II on a charge of aiding, inducing, or causing murder. Thompson is currently jailed in Delaware County on a separate, unrelated case. Police call the affidavit “one milestone” in what remains an active, ongoing investigation. No formal charges have been filed by a prosecutor. Wilson was found shot multiple times inside a vehicle in the 1400 block of East Cromer Avenue around 3 a.m. on Oct. 5. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Yorktown High School junior had committed to play football at West Virginia in June. ...read more read less
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