On September 23, 2019, a shooting in Gary, Indiana, left two men dead and two others wounded. Kerry Rice Jr., 32, was found dead inside a vehicle near 16th Avenue and Connecticut Street. Aaron Scott, 30, was also killed. Rice was the son of a Gary police sergeant, a detail noted by local observers.

The attack occurred shortly before 2:00 a.m.; witnesses and reports say a gunman fired multiple rounds from a semi-automatic pistol into the vehicle that held four people. Steven Rice, Kerry’s brother, and an unidentified woman were wounded in that ambush. Steven Rice survived the September 2019 attack but was later killed in Gary on July 1, 2020.

After an investigation, authorities named 35-year-old Michael Sherrod Smith as the primary suspect. Smith fled the state but was found by federal marshals in Oakland, California, on July 21, 2020, where he discarded a firearm while trying to flee and was arrested on two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Does anyone have information about the vehicle, the scene that night, or contacts who might help with this case?