On the evening of August 9, 2021, 34-year-old Leland Sinclair Collins was shot in the parking lot of Eastside Liquors on East Michigan Boulevard in Michigan City, Indiana. Officers found him with a life-threatening gunshot wound around 7:30 p.m.; he received emergency care and was transported to a nearby hospital, where he later died. A female companion who was with him survived the attack.

Collins was a husband and father of five and owned No Limit Lawn Care. Family and community members remembered him as kind and helpful. Investigators pursued the case for months, and on July 12, 2022, an arrest warrant was issued for 41-year-old Lamar Friend of LaPorte, Indiana; Friend, already in custody on unrelated charges, was served with the warrant and charged with Collins’s murder and the attempted murder of the female companion. The initial court appearance was scheduled for July 19, 2022.

If anyone has information about Collins, his movements that evening, or the events at Eastside Liquors, please share what is known.