INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man will serve 18 months in federal prison for the illegal possession of a machine gun.

On June 22, 2025, the evening of Game Seven for NBA Finals, 20-year-old A’Jon Hall of Indianapolis, was spotted by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police carrying a backpack in Downtown Indy with multiple firearms on Georgia Street. Hall was dressed in all black and was wearing a black face mask.

According to a release by the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Indiana, as police approached him, a large crowd of people ran in panic. Hall repeatedly ignored commands to stop and fled into a parking garage stairwell. During the pursuit, he discarded ...