On April 10, 2015, 22-year-old Johnnie Dixon III was found dead outside an apartment at the St. John Homes complex on the 2200 block of Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana. Neighbors reported hearing 18 to 20 gunshots around 1:20 a.m.; a witness later saw Dixon on the ground with his arms raised before they fell to his sides. Police pronounced him deceased and the death was ruled a homicide — the tenth in Gary that year.

Detective Alexander Jones of the Gary Police Department led the investigation. Authorities asked the public for information but made no immediate arrests or public identifications of suspects. Johnnie Dixon III graduated from Roosevelt High School, worked for Wis International Inventory, and was remembered as fun-loving and devoted to his family. He is survived by his young daughter, Carmyn Jania’ Tiara Dixon.

If anyone has information that could help bring answers in this case, please come forward.