In the early morning hours of July 26, 2021, 43-year-old Indianapolis resident Sean Nailer was shot at the Sherbrook Apartments along Stop 11 Road. Emergency medical technicians arrived just before 3 a.m. after a report of a shooting. Nailer was taken to a nearby hospital but died of multiple gunshot wounds.

A shirtless man at the scene, later identified as Jeremy Etheridge, initially told responders that bullets had come through the apartment walls and suggested a mutual friend was responsible. Investigators found a Taurus 9mm handgun and four spent casings inside Etheridge’s apartment, evidence that indicated the shooting occurred within the residence. A warrant was issued for Etheridge after he fled the state; U.S. Marshals located him in Union City, Tennessee, on February 11, 2022, and he was returned to Indianapolis.

On June 24, 2024, Jeremy Etheridge pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter under sudden heat; the original murder charge was dismissed and he received a 15-year prison sentence plus two years probation. Did anyone who knew Sean or who lived at Sherbrook Apartments notice unusual activity that weekend?