On the afternoon of April 9, 2022, officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department found a man with apparent trauma in an alley near the 3900 block of Byram Avenue, close to 38th and Meridian Street in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood. Emergency responders took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Marion County Coroner’s Office later ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound.

The victim was identified as 56-year-old Sebastian Reyes, known to friends and family as Terry and by his Muslim name Tariq. He had moved to Indianapolis from Brooklyn, New York, was a father of six and a grandfather of six, worked in labor, attended an Islamic school in Indianapolis, and was remembered by relatives as devoted to his faith and having a heart of gold. No arrests have been announced and detectives have not released a motive or a suspect description; the investigation remains open.

Did anyone in the Butler-Tarkington area see or hear anything unusual in that alley on the afternoon of April 9, 2022?