On the night of January 15, 2025, officers responded to a burglary report at the Overlook at the Fairgrounds Apartments in the 1700 block of East 38th Street around 11:30 p.m. Inside a fourth-floor unit they found 38-year-old Jeremy Lee Patton, a Black man, who had sustained significant trauma; the Marion County Coroner’s Office later ruled his death a homicide. Patton did not live at the complex but was reportedly familiar with the property.

Shortly before he was killed Patton called his ex-wife, Angela Patton, saying he was at the building and worried about certain people on the fourth floor; she urged him to leave and that was their last conversation. Police say a violent struggle occurred and that surveillance from the complex is being sought. A person of interest was detained at the scene and released; no suspects have been named and no arrests announced.

Anyone with information about Jeremy Patton’s last movements or the occupants of that fourth-floor apartment is asked to come forward.