A double homicide in a long-established eastside Indianapolis home left two people dead and a neighborhood shaken. On the afternoon of January 8, 2025, officers conducting a welfare check in the 5200 block of East 20th Place found 57-year-old Deborah Denise Russell and 60-year-old Lowell Randall Quinnette shot to death inside the residence where Quinnette had lived for nearly four decades. Family described Quinnette as a maintenance man and musician; he and Russell were in a long-term, on-again, off-again relationship.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area after the discovery. The Marion County Coroner’s Office later ruled both deaths homicides on March 4, 2025. No arrests, suspects, or motive have been announced and investigators are asking anyone with security camera footage or information to come forward.

Did anyone in the eastside community notice unusual activity around East 20th Place on or shortly before January 8, 2025?