On the night of January 27, 2022, officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a shooting reported on the city’s west side around 11:30 p.m. In the 200 block of Bertha Court, near Rockville Road and South Lynhurst Drive, first responders found 53-year-old Charles Ray Cole outside a home with an apparent gunshot wound. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Witnesses told detectives a dark-colored vehicle, possibly a Saturn, was seen driving away from the area immediately after the gunfire. Police cordoned off the scene to collect evidence and interview observers. Investigators later identified and arrested 57-year-old Leon Brewer as the primary suspect; on February 2, 2022, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office charged Brewer with murder and a misdemeanor count of carrying a handgun without a license.

If anyone has information about the shooting, the vehicle seen leaving the scene, or knew Charles Ray Cole, please share what you know with investigators.