On the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 23-year-old Deante Lamar McKinzie was brought to a hospital in Indianapolis with gunshot wounds and later died there. Homicide detectives traced the shooting to a residence near East 38th Street and North Sherman Drive in the Forest Manor neighborhood, and investigators describe the event as an altercation that occurred at that location before McKinzie went to the hospital.

On Friday, May 19, 2023, police arrested 23-year-old Cynthia Lewis and charged her preliminarily with murder in connection with McKinzie’s death. Authorities say the suspect and the victim were known to each other and that detectives established probable cause linking Lewis to the scene on East 38th Street.

Are there witnesses or neighborhood details about the residence near East 38th Street and North Sherman Drive that could help clarify what happened that night?