A family dispute in a Camby, Indiana neighborhood ended with the death of 37-year-old Ashlee Atkins on the evening of June 29, 2022. Police were sent to a Hosta Way home after an incomplete 911 call in which a man said he had shot someone in self-defense. Officers found Atkins inside the residence with fatal gunshot wounds.

Investigation centered on her brother, 30-year-old Christopher Monroe, who was at the scene. Authorities say a heated argument over rent money had broken out and some of Atkins’s children were reportedly in the home and overheard the dispute. Monroe was arrested on a preliminary murder charge after giving conflicting statements — first that he acted in self-defense, then that the shotgun discharged accidentally. Court records state he admitted firing the shotgun a second time after the initial shot and he was held without bond at the Marion County Jail pending an initial hearing.

Does anyone who knew Ashlee or who was in that neighborhood that night have information that could help clarify what happened?