Derrick Merrill Dye Jr., 32, was killed in Evansville in the early hours of Sunday, February 11, 2024. Family remembered him as funny, loving, caring, and deeply family-oriented. At about 3:11 a.m. outside the Ponytails strip club on Columbia Street, surveillance video shows Dye approached by another man; the two wrestled briefly and a single gunshot was fired. A caller told dispatch a man had been shot in the heart. Dye was taken to Deaconess Midtown Hospital and pronounced dead. The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the chest.

The Evansville Police Department used witness descriptions, surveillance footage, and flock camera data to identify a suspect and located a 27-year-old man in the 2800 block of Ravenswood Drive later that Sunday evening; he was taken into custody and booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center and preliminarily charged with murder. Does anyone have information about what happened that night or saw activity near Ponytails on Columbia Street around 3 a.m. on February 11?