Steven Wade Childress, 25, was critically wounded in a shooting during an altercation near 16th Street and Madison Avenue in Anderson, Indiana, in the early morning hours of June 19, 2022. Another man, Landon Hill, was shot and died at the scene that night. Childress was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries on August 4, 2022.

Anderson Police investigated the double shooting and presented the case to the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office. The prosecutor concluded the shootings occurred in self-defense, finding that Hill had shot Childress and that an unnamed third person then shot Hill. No criminal charges were filed and the case was closed.

What details about the confrontation or the people involved might help explain how two lives ended that night?