Investigators say a renewed review of evidence connected Noah Brimmage to the 2023 deaths of Olivia Brown and Darian Wiley.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — More than three years after Olivia Katherine Brown and Darian Jamar Wiley were shot to death on an Indianapolis street, police have arrested and charged a 24-year-old man in a case that had left two families waiting years for an answer. Noah Brimmage faces two counts of murder and several other felony charges in the May 6, 2023, killings, according to police and court records cited in published reports.

The charges mark the first publicly reported arrest in a case that began with two young friends walking through the near north side of Indianapolis after a night out. Authorities say surveillance video showed two hooded figures following Brown, 24, and Wiley, 27, shortly before gunfire erupted near East 21st and Ruckle streets. Wiley was shot in the street. Brown reached her vehicle and apparently tried to drive away before she also was shot. Police initially had no publicly identified suspect, and the killings remained unresolved for years.

The shooting was reported shortly after 12:30 a.m. on May 6, 2023. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers responding to the area near East 21st Street and Central Avenue found a man and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The Marion County Coroner’s Office later identified them as Brown and Wiley. Later reporting and court records placed the central scene in the 2100 block of Ruckle Street. Police did not immediately announce a motive or identify anyone believed responsible.

Investigators later reconstructed more of the pair’s movements before the shooting. Wiley had parked near his home and was walking Brown back to her car when two people began following them, according to surveillance footage described in local reporting. A neighborhood resident told reporters that the pair behind Brown and Wiley appeared to be moving quickly. Gunfire followed. Wiley was left in the roadway, while Brown had made it into her vehicle. Authorities say she was shot before she could get away. The evidence described publicly does not establish that Brown or Wiley knew the people following them.

The case eventually shifted to IMPD’s unsolved homicide unit. Police said that unit took over two years after the killings and reexamined evidence from the original investigation. When announcing Brimmage’s arrest in July 2026, the department said detectives had revisited evidence, connected forensic findings to a suspect and approached unanswered questions from different investigative perspectives. Police have not publicly detailed every step that led from the renewed review to the filing of charges, but court documents and news reports describe several pieces of physical and digital evidence prosecutors intend to use.

Among the most significant allegations is the recovery of a firearm belonging to Wiley. According to a probable cause affidavit described by People and other outlets, Wiley’s gun was found in a vehicle associated with Brimmage during a traffic stop the day after the killings. Investigators also cited messages allegedly connected to Brimmage. The affidavit, as summarized in published reports, says he had communicated about robbing people before the homicide and later communicated about selling Wiley’s gun. Those allegations are part of the prosecution’s account and have not been proven at trial.

The affidavit also describes investigators examining Brimmage’s activity during the hours surrounding the shooting. Published accounts say detectives reviewed phone-related evidence and messages as they worked to establish where he was and what he was doing before and after Brown and Wiley were killed. Prosecutors have additionally linked him in court filings to allegations involving other violent incidents around the same period, including another shooting and an arson. Those allegations should not be treated as proof that he committed the May 6 killings, but investigators have cited them as part of the broader sequence they examined while building the homicide case.

Brimmage was not a free man when detectives identified him in the renewed investigation. IMPD said he was incarcerated at the Branchville Correctional Facility in southern Indiana on unrelated matters. Law&Crime reported that he had previously pleaded guilty to arson and criminal recklessness and was serving prison time for those offenses. In the new case, records cited by news organizations list two murder counts along with robbery resulting in bodily injury, three counts of battery by means of a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness. The charges are accusations, and they do not establish guilt.

For Brown’s family, the arrest arrived after years in which relatives said they feared the case would simply recede from public attention. Her sister Hannah Carter described the uncertainty in an interview before the charges were announced, saying it was difficult for the family to remain in a place where they did not know what would happen while the rest of the world appeared to move on. The new charges provide a major development, but they do not resolve every question surrounding the shooting. Surveillance evidence described in the case showed two people following the victims, while only Brimmage has been publicly charged in connection with the killings.

Brown was a therapist who had already completed graduate studies and was working toward becoming a licensed clinical social worker. Her obituary said she graduated from Columbus North High School in 2016, then attended Ball State University and earned a master’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University. She worked at the Emberwood Center in Indianapolis. Her family remembered her as someone who enjoyed reading, learning to cook, working out, traveling, cats, candy, shopping and tattoos. The obituary described helping other people as an important part of her life.

Wiley had also attended Ball State University, where he studied construction management after graduating from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis in 2015. His obituary said he had been active in football, robotics and an ACE program before finding a career interest in construction. His family remembered him as a music lover who tried playing guitar, enjoyed golf and liked spending time with friends. He was known by the nickname Ren and was described as someone who brought energy to gatherings and made other people laugh.

The 2023 shooting also unsettled residents of the neighborhood where it happened. In the immediate aftermath, residents told local news organizations that serious violence of that kind was unusual enough to cause fear and frustration. At the time, police were asking for information while giving the public little indication of who might have carried out the killings or why. The passage of more than three years before charges were announced made the July 2026 arrest a significant reversal in a case that had appeared publicly to have few new developments.

Important questions nevertheless remain. Publicly available reporting has not identified the second person seen following Brown and Wiley, and authorities have not announced another arrest in the killings. A motive has not been established in court. The prosecution must still prove its allegations against Brimmage through the criminal process, and evidence described in a probable cause affidavit may be challenged by the defense. The public reports reviewed for this article did not establish a final disposition of the new murder case as of Aug. 28.

The case therefore enters a different stage than the one Brown’s and Wiley’s families endured for the previous three years. Investigators have moved from an unsolved homicide inquiry to a prosecution against a named defendant, but the second figure captured in the surveillance account remains an unresolved part of the story. Brimmage is presumed innocent of the new charges unless proved guilty in court, and the investigation into the circumstances surrounding both deaths remains consequential as the case proceeds.

Author note: Last updated Aug. 28, 2026.