On the evening of Sunday, November 26, 2006, 27-year-old Len Carruthers was shot while speaking with someone outside an apartment at 920 Portage Lane in the Carriage Hills Apartments, Elkhart, Indiana. A man described by witnesses as a slender Black male about six feet tall approached from behind and fired a single shot from a revolver. Carruthers was taken to Elkhart General Hospital and died shortly after arrival.

Police treated the shooting as a homicide and the Elkhart Police Homicide unit opened an investigation. Investigators noted that Carruthers had been involved earlier that day in an altercation at a nightclub in nearby Goshen and considered whether the two incidents were related, but no definitive link was confirmed. Despite witness description and an appeal by Michiana Crime Stoppers, no arrests have been announced and the identity of the shooter remains unknown.

Does anyone with information about Carruthers, his movements that day, or who may have been at Carriage Hills on November 26, 2006, have tips to share?