On the evening of December 3, 2021, Derek Ramon Collier, a 48-year-old Black man, was shot and killed on the sidewalk near the 2900 block of East 19th Street on Indianapolis’ east side. First responders arrived after reports of a shooting around 9:00 p.m.; Collier sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Marion County Coroner ruled the death a homicide.

Detectives from the IMPD Homicide Office canvassed a neighborhood near North Rural Street and sought witnesses and evidence. Public appeals asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana, but reporting after the incident indicated no suspects had been identified and no arrests had been announced. Collier, known to friends and family as AD or Another Day, lived in Indianapolis since 1979, worked as a certified forklift operator at MicroMetl, and is survived by his mother, several children, and grandchildren.

Does anyone who lived in that neighborhood on December 3, 2021, recall seeing or hearing anything that night?