Twenty-two-year-old Daniel S. Baxter was fatally shot on October 8, 2020, while stopped at a traffic light at East 30th Street and North Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis. His vehicle later crashed nearby and was found by an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant; Baxter was inside, unresponsive with gunshot wounds.

Security footage from Baxter’s apartment complex showed a black Dodge Charger following his car shortly before the shooting. At the intersection, a man exited the passenger side of the Charger, approached Baxter’s vehicle and fired five shots, then fled. Witnesses gave a description of the suspect vehicle that helped investigators track it down.

Investigators identified Keith Cole as the primary suspect. The Charger’s owner, Curtis Carson, told his parole officer he had been driving and that Cole was the shooter, and said he and others helped conceal evidence; police recovered distinctive pants Cole had discarded. About a week and a half after the killing, officers found a .357 Magnum wrapped in plastic in an outdoor trash can at Cole’s residence; Cole’s fingerprint and DNA were linked to the packaging and the gun, and ballistics matched the bullets to that weapon. Cole was arrested, tried and convicted for Baxter’s murder and later sentenced. Did anyone who knew Daniel see him or his car that night, or have other information about the shooting?