A man charged in the shooting of his ex-girlfriend outside a daycare has been found guilty. He now awaits trial in the killing of a Sheriff's deputy.

Testimony has concluded in the first of two murder trials against Orlando Mitchell. The suspect is accused of killing the mother of his child outside a daycare followed by the murder of a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy while in custody.

After 90 minutes of deliberations, a jury found an Indianapolis man guilty of murdering the mother of his child outside a daycare on Indy’s near west side. Jurors convicted

The defense has rested without calling a single witness or offering any evidence in the trial for a murder outside an Indianapolis day care on Sept. 16, 2022. Krystal Walton had just dropped off her then-1-year-old son when she was shot and killed outside the Charity Child Care at 10th Street and Holmes Avenue on the near west side of Indianapolis.