Police hunt suspect after recent business school graduate killed in downtown shooting

A agleam young antheral who precocious graduated from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business Indianapolis had his beingness chopped abbreviated erstwhile helium was murdered Thursday.

Brett Scrogham, 23, is the unfortunate of the crime. He planned to articulation his household for an Indianapolis Indians shot crippled downtown past week erstwhile helium parked his car wrong a nationalist garage, according to WXIN.

Witnesses heard a gunshot and saw a antheral moving from the garage. Police past recovered a wounded Scrogham.

He died from his injuries Saturday, constabulary said.

Brett Scrogham was changeable successful an Indianapolis parking store connected Thursday, May 28, 2026, and died Saturday, May 30, 2026. (Robyn Collier)

Indianapolis authorities person not issued a ceremonial statement of the suspect, but said successful a connection to Fox News Digital that they are "making meaningful advancement successful this investigation."

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Scrogham was honored arsenic a apical 100 undergraduate pupil by Indiana University Indianapolis past year, according to a station connected his LinkedIn page.

"Honored to beryllium recognized among specified large peers! I’ve been blessed to beryllium surrounded by truthful overmuch acquisition and cognition astatine the Kelley School of Business, and I look guardant to the opportunities IUI continues to offer!" helium said connected the platform.

Indianapolis Metro Police Department (IMPD) cruisers unafraid a transgression country wherever Brett Scrogham was killed connected May 28, 2028. (WXIN)

According to his LinkedIn page, helium was a improvement expert astatine a commercialized real-estate firm.

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"He was highly intelligent," a person of Scrogham's who knew him done collegecollege and their religion lives told Fox News Digital. "I figured he'd beryllium moving a institution successful a mates of years. He seemed to cognize everyone, [was] friends with everyone."

The past clip Stewart saw Scrogham was astatine his caller wedding.

"He could've been connected 'Dancing With the Stars,'" Stewart said. "The mode helium knew however to plaything creation was crazy. The second fractional of the wedding helium stole the show."

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"He was truly smart, truly into his faith," Stewart continued. "Just unthinkable that helium would beryllium the one, of each people, to beryllium a unfortunate of senseless violence."

Downtown Indianapolis is seen connected Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (Max Gersh/Indy Star)

Meanwhile, convulsive transgression successful Indianapolis has go a hotly-debated issue.

"Today, I americium saddened to larn of the passing of the unfortunate of past week’s random enactment of violence. My prayers are with the household of this young antheral and each who knew him," said the city's Democratic Mayor Joe Hogsett successful a connection connected X. "Violence anyplace successful our assemblage is unacceptable — particularly erstwhile it claims the beingness of an guiltless idiosyncratic simply enjoying the amenities that marque our metropolis great."

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He praised the enactment of section authorities and said detectives volition "continue to enactment diligently to clasp the perpetrators of this transgression accountable and volition not remainder until a fishy is successful custody."

Hogsett urged the assemblage to travel unneurotic to stock accusation to assistance the investigation.