Clifford Nathaniel Hudson, 40, was shot in the head on the near west side of Indianapolis on the afternoon of Sunday, October 12, 2025. He had been standing beside an SUV, talking with its occupants at West 14th Street and North Tibbs Avenue when someone in another vehicle opened fire. First responders found him critically injured in the street; he was taken to a hospital and died two days later.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department detectives opened a homicide investigation, canvassed the area and interviewed two people who were present; those individuals were later released. No suspects, motive or arrests have been publicly identified. Hudson had survived an earlier shooting in the same neighborhood in August, when he was wounded in the groin, and his record included an arrest during a warrant sweep followed by incarceration and probation.

Anyone who was in the area on October 12 or who has information about Hudson’s earlier August shooting or this fatal incident is asked to contact investigators.