Timothy Bixler, 29, was shot in the early morning hours of November 22, 2020, at the Budget 8 Inn on Indianapolis’s east side. Officers found him in a second-floor motel room on East 21st Street near Shadeland Avenue after a call about shots fired shortly before 6 a.m. He was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead soon after arrival.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and released a surveillance image showing two persons of interest. On November 24, 2020, detectives arrested 22-year-old Richard Johnson and charged him preliminarily with murder. A motive has not been disclosed, and no public details about further legal proceedings or the other person in the surveillance image have been released.

If anyone has information about the shooting, the victim, or the second person seen in the footage, please share what you know with investigators.