On August 13, 2023, 27-year-old Oliver (Ollie) Johnson was found dead on the kitchen floor of an apartment in the 7100 block of Foxborough Drive in Lawrence, on the outskirts of Indianapolis. Officers responding to a reported domestic altercation discovered he had significant head trauma and pronounced him dead at the scene. A baseball bat was initially suspected, but the coroner found Oliver died from two gunshot wounds.

Investigators recovered an AR-15-style rifle, a handgun, a bullet casing, and a hole in a wall near the body. The primary suspect was identified as Oliver’s father, 53-year-old Rolf Johnson, who reportedly contacted another son and said Oliver had tried to strike him and that he had retaliated, possibly with a hammer. Rolf was located about an hour later in a nearby town during a traffic stop; officers observed what appeared to be blood on his pants. He was booked into the Marion County Jail without bond on a murder charge and the case is ongoing.

Did anyone in the Lawrence area know Oliver or have information about what happened that night?