A family gathering on Father’s Day in the summer of 2014 ended in a deadly confrontation in the Mars Hill area on Indianapolis’ southwest side. The gathering turned violent after 47-year-old Wendell Vanbuskirk was asked to leave a home following an altercation with his girlfriend’s family. He returned later that night with other men and was armed with a baseball bat, and an assault on his girlfriend’s mother outside the residence escalated into a larger melee and a gun battle.

When Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived, Vanbuskirk was found dead of a gunshot wound. Two others were wounded: 47-year-old Lisa Farley suffered a gunshot wound to the face and was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition; 34-year-old Aridith Curbeaux suffered gunshot wounds to his shoulder and face and was taken to Methodist Hospital. IMPD’s Homicide Unit interviewed witnesses and canvassed the neighborhood, and identified Joshua Curbeaux as a suspect; after a SWAT team surrounded a house where he was believed to be hiding, he turned himself in.

Did anyone at the gathering or in the Mars Hill neighborhood see events that night or have information that could add detail to what happened?