On the evening of July 29, 2021, 35-year-old Christian Michael Cox was shot and later died after a dispute over a speeding car on the 1600 block of West 9th Street in Anderson, Indiana. Cox, who worked as a manager at a local Tire Barn and enjoyed fishing, camping and boating, had been outside with his girlfriend when they shouted at a car they believed was endangering a child on the sidewalk. The vehicle left but returned, and a confrontation followed between Cox and the driver, identified as 18-year-old Aundray Lamonte Ivy Jr. Ivy fired multiple shots, striking Cox; Cox was taken to a local hospital where he died.

Witness descriptions of the shooter and the vehicle led to Ivy’s rapid arrest by Anderson police. He was charged with murder, but prosecutors later reviewed the evidence and the state’s self-defense laws and concluded they could not disprove Ivy’s claim of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. The murder charge was dismissed and Ivy pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness; he was sentenced to 18 months in jail with credit for time already served.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember the moments before the car returned to the block that evening?