MUNCIE, IN — A Delaware County judge has declined to set bond for an Indianapolis man charged in connection with a December homicide.
Randal B. Moon Jr., 40, is one of five Indianapolis residents charged in the Dec. 14 slaying of 58-year-old Michael D. Greer of Shelbyville.
Greer’s body was found in a burning car along Delaware County Road 500 South west of Indiana 3.
A probable cause affidavit indicated Greer had been both shot and beaten. But forensic tests showed the victim was still alive when the car was set on fire.
On Tuesday, March 24, Delaware Circuit Court 1 Judge Judi Calhoun denied a motion by Moon’s attorney, Ron Smith of Muncie, to set bond in his client’s case.
Moon is charged with aiding, inducing or causing murder, arson, kidnapping, criminal confinement and obstruction of justice, along with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice.
In Indiana, bond is generally not set in murder cases “when proof is evident, or the presumption strong.”
In denying Moon’s request for bond to be set in his case, Calhoun noted the testimony at a Feb. 24 hearing of two Delaware County sheriff’s deputies.
They said Moon was seen in surveillance videos interacting with co-defendants Amy Singhas and Ameariss Aponte outside convenience stores in Indianapolis and Daleville on the early morning of Dec. 14.
The deputies said Moon was traveling in a pickup truck, and his co-defendants were in the car that was later set on fire.
Moon was “developed as a suspect in this matter based upon statements made by co-defendants,” the judge wrote.
Investigators said they found communication between Singhas and Moon in which Singhas indicated she had a “b” — believed to be slang for a body — “to get rid of.”
The judge also noted investigators reviewing phone data “found a deleted video of a beating that took place on the evening of Dec. 13” at Singhas’ Indianapolis home.
GPS tracking for Moon’s truck shows the vehicle on that night was outside Singhas’ home, at the convenience stores where the surveillance video was recovered, and at the “site of the burned suspect vehicle” in Delaware County, the judge wrote.
Moon reportedly acknowledged to investigators he had driven Singhas and Aponte from the scene of the car fire.
In declining to set bond, Calhoun found it was “more likely than not” the Indianapolis man committed crimes stemming from the homicide.
His trial in the murder case had been set for March 17 but was postponed.
He is set to stand trial July 7, also in Delaware Circuit Court 1, on four charges filed against him in December: possession of a destructive device, transporting a destructive device, auto theft and possession of paraphernalia.
That case stems from the discovery in May 2024 of a grenade in a vehicle Moon was traveling in.
According to an affidavit, Moon was a passenger in a Dodge Ram pickup truck — which had earlier been reported as stolen to Indianapolis police — as it traveled on Muncie’s south side on May 1, 2024.
After making a traffic stop, Muncie police reported finding a backpack in the truck that contained a “military-style grenade,” along with a handgun.
Moon’s record includes convictions for possession of meth and unlawful possession of a syringe.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter for The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.
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Reporting by Douglas Walker, Muncie Star Press / Muncie Star Press
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