The Indiana Fever spent the last several months quietly building a security wall around Sophie Cunningham. Today the public got to see why.
A 48-year-old Indianapolis man, Kevin Singh, was charged with stalking, intimidation, and harassment after prosecutors say he sent multiple threatening and explicit messages to Cunningham on social media. Singh was arrested Tuesday, June 23, and the formal charges were announced Wednesday morning.
The pattern, according to court documents, started in February. Singh’s online behavior escalated through the spring even after Pacers Sports and Entertainment intervened. The team’s vice president of security sent Singh a cease-and-desist letter on April 30, banning him from Gainbridge Fieldhouse and any other Pacers property.
He kept going. That is the part of the story that should rattle the WNBA.
One of the more disturbing details came from a 2025 incident. On Sept. 30, Singh hand-delivered a package addressed to “Sophie” at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Inside, prosecutors say, was a Guns N’ Roses t-shirt sprayed with men’s cologne and a letter. That is the kind of detail you read in a true-crime article, not a sports headline.
Singh is not a first-time offender. He is currently on probation in Hendricks County after pleading guilty to two counts of invasion of privacy. Online court records show charges against him going back to 2006 for intimidation, invasion of privacy, stalking, criminal confinement, and battery in multiple Indiana counties.
This is the reality of being a WNBA star in 2026. Cunningham is one of the most recognizable players in the league, thanks to her on-court intensity and her massive social media following, and that visibility comes with a real safety cost. The WNBA does not have anything close to the security infrastructure the NBA built over decades, and incidents like this expose the gap.
Credit goes to the Fever’s security operation here. They did not wait for something violent to happen. They identified the threat, formally warned the suspect, documented the escalation, and worked with prosecutors. That is the playbook other WNBA front offices should be studying right now.
What Cunningham herself thinks of all this, the public has not heard yet. She has been understandably quiet on the matter. Fever teammates have rallied around her privately, and the team has not commented beyond confirming that player safety is the priority.
The legal process now plays out in Marion County. Singh faces multiple felony counts, and given his prior record, prosecutors have a strong case for keeping him away from Cunningham and Gainbridge for a long time.
The deeper issue does not go away with one arrest. Female athletes draw more eyes and more obsessive attention than ever before, and the systems built to protect them have not caught up. The WNBA needs a league-level security policy. The Sophie Cunningham case will be the example everyone points to.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
