Late on the night of Friday, June 20, 2025, a shooting on the east side of Indianapolis left 32-year-old Shawna Renee Durst dead. Officers found Durst in the roadway near Arlington Avenue and East 21st Street with gunshot wounds; she was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died shortly after. Her boyfriend was also shot but survived and was treated at a local hospital.

Witnesses told investigators the confrontation began as a dispute between neighbors over a basketball and a hoop, and that the boyfriend’s confrontation with a child prompted Durst to intervene. Detectives say all participants in the altercation have been identified, but no arrests were announced and the prosecutor’s office had not ruled out possible self-defense claims. Durst was a mother of six; her children were placed with relatives after her death.

Who in the neighborhood might have seen the sequence of events that led to the shooting and can help clarify what happened?