On the evening of April 17, 2022, a physical confrontation in an apartment building on West Mill Road in Evansville, Indiana, escalated into a deadly exchange of gunfire that killed 43-year-old Vito Acardo Allen. Officers who responded found Allen dead at the scene; the other man involved, 50-year-old Thomas R. James, was transported to a hospital with gunshot wounds and later died there. The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office identified both men.

The Evansville Police Department’s investigation concluded that Allen and James had assaulted each other and that the shooting resulted from that altercation. Investigators described the incident as isolated and said they were not seeking other suspects. Did anyone living in or near the West Mill Road complex that night see what led up to the confrontation?