IN - Chanti Dixon, 30, found dead near wooded area, Indianapolis, 9 Sept 2024, Uber driver arrested

[legalmomma]

Rideshare driver arrested for murder after woman found dead near wooded area in Indy

According to IMPD, officers were called to the 1800 block of Wagner Lane on a report of a dead person.

www.wrtv.com

INDIANAPOLIS — A 29-year-old man faces a Murder charge after a woman was found dead outside a home on the city's southeast side this afternoon.

According to IMPD, officers were called to the 1900 block of Earhart Street on a report of a dead person. They found 30-year-old Chanti Dixon in the 1800 block of Wagner Street.

Dixon was reported missing earlier in the day, according to IMPD.
On Tuesday, IMPD announced the arrest of a 29-year-old man. The man, according to IMPD, was an Uber driver who picked up Dixon prior to her death.

Dixon was found to have suffered a fatal gunshot wound.

According to preliminary court documents, the Uber driver told police differing stories before eventually admitting to shooting Dixon in the back of his car.

The Uber driver also admitted to sexually assaulting her, according to court documents.

 

[legalmomma]

This is Francisco Valadez. He allegedly admitted to killing 30-year-old Chanti Dixon after giving her a ride in his Uber. IMPD is asking anyone in the community who may have been in contact with him recently to call their homicide office

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833570222940254515

 

[legalmomma]

Rideshare driver arrested for murder after woman found dead near wooded area in Indy

According to IMPD, officers were called to the 1800 block of Wagner Lane on a report of a dead person.

www.wrtv.com

"This is disgusting," Chief Chris Bailey said. "It's disturbing. No one deserves to be treated this way in our community."
Assistant Chief of Police Catherine Cummings also shared comments with the public on Tuesday at a press conference.
"As a woman, this hits differently for me," Cummings said.

"Women, girls, mothers.. we have a right to exist freely in our community without fear of something heinous happening to them. We have a right to walk, bike, order a ride share without fearing something bad will happen to them."

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Yes we do!!

 

[legalmomma]

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/rideshare-driver-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-missing-woman-on-near-southeast-side/

Dixon used an app to call for a rideshare driver around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No one heard from her after the driver picked her up, police said. A missing persons report was filed Monday morning, and Dixon’s body was discovered around 1 p.m. that day.

 

[legalmomma]

Ride-share driver arrested after woman who called for ride found dead Monday

Indianapolis police are investigating a woman's death as a homicide after she was found dead in a wooded area near an apartment complex on Monday.

www.indystar.com

A ride-share driver was arrested less than 24 hours after a woman who called him for a ride was reported missing. Her body was found Monday afternoon in a wooded area near the apartment complex where she lived.

Chanti Bresha Dixon, 30, was found dead near the Grandville Cooperative apartments in the 1800 block of Wagner Lane about 1 p.m. The caller led police to where Dixon was found unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

[legalmomma]

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/impd-uber-driver-admits-to-raping-killing-indy-woman-before-dumping-her-body-in-an-alleyway/

INDIANAPOLIS — Police say an Uber driver recently arrested in the death of Chanti Dixon admitted he raped, shot and killed the woman after picking her up from work Sunday morning.

Francisco Valadez, 29, was arrested Tuesday morning by IMPD homicide detectives and preliminarily charged with murder.

Valadez reportedly admitted to police that he shot and killed the 30-year-old Dixon in a fit of rage after picking her up as an Uber driver and attempting to rape her in the back of his car. He then said he dumped her body in an alleyway.

Dixon’s death​

Court documents filed Tuesday in Marion County Court detail how officers were called around 1 p.m. Monday to the 1800 block of Wagner Lane after a woman’s body was found in a nearby wooded area. IMPD arrived to find a woman naked, unresponsive and lying on her stomach.
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[legalmomma]

and it keeps getting worse

https://cbs4indy.com/news/impd-uber-driver-admits-to-raping-killing-indy-woman-before-dumping-her-body-in-an-alleyway/

Detectives said Valadez admitted to raping the woman in the back of his car. While raping the woman, Valadez said she insulted his body. This reportedly caused him to become enraged and shoot Dixon in the head.

Valadez told police that after the shooting, he drug Dixon out of his car and placed her lifeless body behind a concrete barrier at the dead end of Wagner Lane. The Uber driver also admitted to trying to have sex with Dixon’s dead body, police said.

 

[mickey2942]

This is so scary. I wish that there was a way that women could specify female drivers only. I know the myriad of issues that would come with this though.

I don't like the thought of women basically being prey for a random bad guy Uber driver.