On the night of October 3, 2019, 37-year-old Alfred Hayes Jr. was shot and killed inside Connor’s Pub in Indianapolis’ Broad Ripple neighborhood after an argument. Accounts say Hayes stepped in as a peacemaker after a staff member was pushed; another man, identified as Curtis Baker, then approached and shot Hayes in the chest. Emergency responders found Hayes with a fatal gunshot wound at the bar on the 6300 block of North Ferguson Street.

Family and friends remembered Hayes as a loving father, son, and brother, an artist and poet who also worked as a security manager and appeared in short films. Multiple witnesses identified Baker to police, a manhunt followed, and Baker was captured in Michigan in February 2020. If anyone knew Alfred, his routines, or saw events at Connor’s Pub that night, please come forward with information.