On the evening of September 17, 2001, Marion County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Matthew Baker, 24, was killed in Indianapolis while attempting to stop a suspicious vehicle. The car, occupied by four individuals, fled and a high-speed pursuit followed. During the chase an occupant fired on Deputy Baker’s patrol vehicle with an AK-47 assault rifle, damaging the car. The pursuit ended at 32nd Street and Brouse Avenue, where the suspects set up an ambush; as Deputy Baker’s vehicle approached he was struck in the head and later died at a local hospital.

A large manhunt followed. The driver, a 20-year-old, was shot and killed by police after an eight-hour standoff. A 19-year-old, Michael Shannon, was arrested; he later pleaded guilty to Deputy Baker’s murder and received life without parole plus 100 years for the attempted murders of another deputy and a bystander. A man who supplied the assault weapons received a 40-year sentence, and another person who harbored the shooter overnight was convicted of assisting a criminal and given two years in prison followed by two years probation. Charges against the remaining two passengers were dismissed.

Does anyone have memories of Deputy Baker or recall details from the response and investigation around 32nd Street and Brouse Avenue that night?