On an April evening in 2016, 44-year-old Kevin Hicks was shot and killed after a physical confrontation with Indianapolis patrol officer Robert Carmichael outside a Marathon gas station at 10th and Rural Streets. The encounter began when Hicks’s wife, Heather, called 911 saying her husband was assaulting her; she pulled into the station with their young son and the officer responded.

Surveillance video shows a struggle beginning in the parking lot. Police say Carmichael tried to use a Taser, which Hicks knocked away, and that the two men fought across the lot and fell out of camera view, where the officer fired the fatal shot. Hicks was unarmed and was pronounced dead at the scene; the officer suffered a bite wound to his hand, facial contusions, and a possible concussion. Witness accounts differed about whether Hicks reached for the officer’s gun; Heather Hicks denies he did. Court records show Hicks was on a day pass from a community corrections facility and an arrest warrant was active. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office investigated and declined to file charges, and the officer returned to duty. In April 2018 Heather Hicks filed a federal lawsuit alleging excessive force and claiming her husband was already on the ground when shot in the head.

Are there details about the struggle or witnesses at the scene that anyone can add?