In the early morning hours of October 27, 2024, a dispute outside a State Street nightclub in Columbus, Indiana, escalated into gunfire that struck 32-year-old Bradford Alexander Kendrick Brooks. A friend drove Brooks to a hospital near Indianapolis for treatment, but he later died of his injuries on November 9, 2024.

Columbus police responded to reports of gunfire at about 3:30 a.m. and spoke with several witnesses who described the altercation. Authorities arrested 43-year-old Pedro Luis Rivera Ayala on October 28 on preliminary charges including aggravated battery, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, and pointing a firearm. After Brooks’ death, the prosecutor’s office moved to amend the charges to include homicide. Brooks was reported to have been an innocent bystander in the incident, which was the city’s first homicide that year.

Did anyone in Columbus see what happened that night or know Bradford Brooks’ movements near State Street?