Darian Jamar Wiley, 27, was fatally shot in the early hours of May 6, 2023, in the Kennedy-King neighborhood of Indianapolis near East 21st and Ruckle streets. He and 24-year-old Olivia Katherine Brown had just returned from dinner when they were targeted in what investigators believe was a botched robbery. Surveillance footage shows Wiley walking Brown to her car, with two hooded men seen following them; after gunshots the two suspects fled and both victims were found dead at the scene.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced. Wiley’s family remembered him as kind and energetic; he was salutatorian of Arsenal Technical High School’s 2015 class, earned a degree in Construction Management from Ball State University, mentored in the Architecture, Construction and Engineering Mentor Program, and was posthumously slated to receive a Mentor of the Year award.

Anyone who saw activity near East 21st and Ruckle streets around the time of the shootings or who has information about the two hooded men is asked to come forward.