INDIANAPOLIS — The smoker was going out behind Pa & Ma’s Backyard Barbeque at 2621 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street on Sunday.
While friends of George Nelson Sr. mourned his death in front of the restaurant, Kirby Moffat tended four racks of ribs behind it.
”If you walked into his place and you needed food, you needed clothes, you needed to just get out of the weather, George was there for you,” said Moffat, wiping the sweat and smoke from his eyes on a 90 degree afternoon. ”He didn’t know any strangers, and he honestly got killed because his heart was a lot bigger than this world.”…