Update: On May 27, 2026, Alfred Allen Armour was convicted by a jury of murder and firearm used in commission of offense leading to death. On June 22, 2026, Armour was sentenced to 73 years in prison.
The Marion County Coroner’s Office posted the death notice for a man on Facebook, asking the community for help as they could not reach a Peruvian man’s immediate family to tell them Pedro Amasifuen Mozombite, 38, had died.
Eventually, his family in Peru was notified, and Mozombite’s local friends started a GoFundMe account to repatriate his body back to Peru.
Mozombite was a Peruvian immigrant worker who came to the United States two years ago with the dream of building a better future for his family in Peru, according to online posts of people sharing the GoFundMe. They describe him as a hardworking man focused on providing financial support to his father and brothers in Lima.
But in the early morning of Feb. 27, 2025, Mozombite was shot in a westside alley. Alfred Allen Armour, 47, was formally charged with murder by the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.
Court documents offer no motive for his killing but neighborhood cameras detailed what detectives think happened.
At 3:12 a.m., on Feb. 27, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were called to a westside neighborhood in the 1100 block of North Somerset Avenue on the report of a person down. Officers found Mozombite on the ground in an alley with trauma to his face and right hand with a cellphone next to him. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
A coroner at the scene noted a gunshot wound to his neck.
A neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera at the scene captured a vehicle speeding away as it left the alley timestamped at 2:35 a.m., court documents say. Another neighbor had footage that showed a tan Honda CRV heading south in the alley toward the 1100 block of Somerset.
The next day, police learned an Indianapolis friend was helping with burial arrangements. Using a Spanish-speaking officer, they learned where Mozombite lived, a little over half a mile from where he was found.
A camera outside the home revealed a person believed to be Mozombite leaving at 2:23 a.m. and walking down the street until he was out of view.
Surveillance footage from Fandango’s Night Club near his home also shows him walking around at that time. Two minutes later, footage shows a tan Honda CRV coming out of a nearby alley on camera.
Alfred Allen Armour, 47, arrested and charged
Nine hours after Mozombite was found, police were about a burned vehicle about a mile and a half from where Mozombite’s body was found. BMV records revealed that it belonged to an Indianapolis woman.
On March 11, police went to the home of the car owner. She told them, her brother Alfred Armour had taken the car a week before.
Detectives reviewed city camera footage near a home where Armour’s sister said he was staying and saw a tan Honda CRV pulling up nearby on Feb. 27 at 8:06 a.m. He is then seen going over to a neighbor’s house and borrowing a red gas can, according to a probable cause affidavit.
On March 12, detectives brought Armour in for questioning.
Armour denied knowing Mozombite but police said video showed a person walking into the parking lot of a nearby church across the street from the Fandango Night Club on Feb. 27 and getting into a vehicle at 2:26 a.m.
Police asked Armour who the man was and he said, “I don’t know brother. I talk to a lot of people,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
At 2:40 A.M. video showed Armour running from an alley in the area back to the home where he was staying about half a mile away, court documents say. Police asked Armour why he was running since no one was chasing him. Armour said probably because it was night time.
When detectives asked Armour why he didn’t bring the Honda CRV home, Armour asked to stop the interview.
Armour remains behind bars with his next court hearing is scheduled for March 18.
Jade Jackson is a Public Safety Reporter for the Indianapolis Star. You can email her at Jade.Jackson@IndyStar.com and follow her on X, formerly Twitter @IAMJADEJACKSON.
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