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On the night of April 20, 2017, James Clark, 31, was found shot to death inside a house on Villa Avenue on Indianapolis’s southeast side. Police responded after reports of gunfire and discovered Clark and another man, Darrell Miller II, both fatally wounded; a small child who had been in the home was rushed out to safety by neighbors and first responders.

Court filings later described a sequence that began with Clark, Darrell and Sarah Miller using methamphetamine and then returning to Clark’s home. Two men, Maurice Turentine and Mingo Thames, arrived to buy drugs. Sarah watched from the kitchen as a sudden shift in movement preceded gunfire. Investigators linked DNA, blood evidence and fingerprints to the visitors, and Sarah later identified Thames from a photo array. Turentine was arrested on May 5, 2017; Thames was arrested months later in El Paso, Texas. Years of prosecutions followed, producing different verdicts and sentences for the two men.

Does anyone on the southeast side remember that night or have information about the events at the Villa Avenue house?