James Red Goliday Jr., 46, was shot in the pre-dawn hours of January 29, 2021, on the 4000 block of Stratford Court near East 42nd Street and North Post Road in Indianapolis. Officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department found him with critical gunshot wounds about 3:30 a.m.; he was transported but died of those wounds, and the Marion County Coroner ruled the death a homicide.

Goliday’s killing occurred in the Towne and Terrace housing complex on the city’s northeast side, a neighborhood that had already experienced several fatal shootings in the previous months.