Harold Lee Jr., 44, was fatally shot on November 10, 2020, in the 400 block of West 40th Street in Indianapolis, in front of his mother’s home near Crown Hill Cemetery. Lee was a prominent neighborhood youth coach who mentored children in football, basketball, and baseball and was widely described as a protector who worked to make the area safer.

Family members and community groups said Lee had been confronting people he believed were dealing and using drugs near his mother’s house. Investigators from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department reviewed leads, including a question posed to Lee’s brother Damon Lee about a fatal stabbing at a nearby Subway a month earlier, but no arrest had been reported. Friends and relatives gathered at the scene the following day to tend the lawn and show solidarity.