D’Lon Edwards, a 34-year-old Black man known to friends and family as Nephew, was found with gunshot wounds in the early morning hours of December 20, 2021, on Indianapolis’s northwest side in the 3900 block of Lawndale Avenue. He was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries. Investigators believed the shooting actually occurred at a nearby residence in the 3900 block of Diamond Lane.

Police contacted a woman named Chaznee Mockabee at the Diamond Lane address; she was initially detained as a person of interest and later released. In November 2022 detectives obtained a near-perfect DNA match linking evidence from a handgun found at the scene to Mockabee. That development prompted the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office to charge her with murder on June 23, 2023, and she was arrested June 25, 2023 after authorities located her vehicle using license plate reader technology.

The community has sought answers about Edwards’s death; the case remained active through those developments. If anyone knew D’Lon Edwards, Nephew, or has information about what happened on December 20, 2021, please come forward.