Timothy Randall Brown Jr., 36, was killed in a mass shooting inside the Landsharks nightclub on Broad Ripple Avenue in Indianapolis in the early hours of March 16, 2024. Video and witness accounts show an argument involving two women escalated when a male patron intervened; surveillance captured the suspect, identified as 25-year-old Nicholas Fulk, pulling a concealed firearm from a female companion’s clothing and firing into the crowd around 1:20 a.m. Six people were struck. Brown, a father and wrestling coach described by loved ones as protective, died of his wounds; five other men survived after hospital treatment.

Investigators used B-Link cameras and license plate readers to follow the suspect from the club to a south side residence. SWAT officers arrested Fulk at a home on Murphy’s Landing Drive less than 10 hours after the shooting. The Marion County Prosecutor charged him with one count of murder for Brown’s death, multiple felony counts related to the injured victims, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon; court records show a 2020 strangulation conviction and that he was on probation for theft at the time. Anyone who knew Tim Brown or witnessed the shooting is asked to share information with investigators.