On the evening of January 2, 2021, 72-year-old Indianapolis resident Russell Peed was found inside his home in the 2000 block of North Alabama Street with multiple gunshot wounds. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene after police were called following reports of a shooting.

The victim’s wife was in the house at the time and told officers she had briefly gone to another part of the home. She said she heard two gunshots, returned, and saw Peed shot in his chair while a relative, identified as the victim’s nephew Robert Dillinger, fled the residence. Dillinger was later arrested and charged in connection with the shooting.

There is a clear family connection in this case and the timeline centers on those few minutes inside the house. If anyone has information about what happened that night or about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.