Randall Shields, a 24-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on October 28, 2022, in Indianapolis while intervening in a domestic dispute to help his sister. That afternoon Shields and his mother had driven to the Hawthorne Place apartments in the 5100 block of Butler Terrace to pick up the sister after she called upset following an argument with her boyfriend. Shields stepped in during the confrontation.

After the family returned to their car and were preparing to leave, the boyfriend approached the vehicle with a handgun and opened fire, striking both Shields and his sister. Though critically wounded, Shields returned fire and struck the man. The mother drove about a mile to a Subway parking lot in the 5200 block of East 38th Street and called 911. Emergency crews transported both victims to a hospital; the sister survived a leg wound, and Shields was pronounced dead.

Officers later found the wounded boyfriend back at the apartment complex and he was taken to a hospital. If anyone witnessed the shooting at Butler Terrace or the events leading up to it, please come forward with information.