Terry Bates, a 32-year-old Black man from Indianapolis, was found fatally shot on September 19, 2019, in the 600 block of Carlyle Place. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department treated the death as a criminal homicide and opened an investigation.

Accounts about the case differ on later developments. Some reports indicated suspects had been identified and arrests made, while official 2019 records listed the homicide as unsolved. The community and Bates’s family have continued to seek answers.

If anyone has information about Terry Bates, his movements on or before September 19, 2019, or the events on Carlyle Place that night, please share what is known with investigators.