KILLED DURING AN ONLINE DATE

POLICE SAY JARRELL PRYOR HAD NO IDEA WHEN HE WENT TO MEET ALEXIS HAWKINS THAT SHE WAS PLOTTING SOMETHING NEFARIOUS

- By SAMIRA ASMA-SADEQUE

One Saturday evening in January, Jarrell Pryor was wrapping up his shift at a warehouse in Indianapolis and getting ready to meet a young woman he'd been messaging that evening. Pryor, 26, was a dedicated single dad to his 3-year-old daughter Honey, whom he was raising with an ex-girlfriend. But the little girl was at home with family while Pryor worked—and a night out awaited with a woman named Alexis Hawkins. The two had connected on Instagram, and Pryor wanted to take Hawkins, 19, out to dinner at a restaurant. But she seemed to be in a hurry, so he drove them to a McDonald's and then a liquor store instead. What Pryor didn't know was that at the same time, Hawkins was allegedly texting her real boyfriend—and planning an ambush.