Inset top: Olivia Katherine Brown (Obituary). Inset bottom: Darian Jamar Wiley (Obituary). Background: The street in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the killings took place (WTHR/YouTube).
A man was walking his friend to her car after a night out in Indiana when a suspect ran up to them and killed them both, authorities say.
Noah Brimmage, 24, is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Olivia Katherine Brown, 24, and Darian Jamar Wiley, 27, according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
The defendant has also been charged with robbery resulting in bodily injury, three counts of battery by means of a deadly weapon, and criminal recklessness.
On May 6, 2023, Brown and Wiley were in the area of 21st Street in Indianapolis. They had had a night out, and after parking at his home, Wiley was walking Brown to her car.
Suddenly, two people started following Brown and Wiley, according to surveillance footage obtained by area NBC affiliate WTHR. A neighbor said the suspects were "walking very quickly after them" and the "next thing you know, you hear shots. Darian is face down in the street, dead."
Brown reportedly reached her vehicle and got inside, trying to race away. However, she, too, was shot and killed.
Local residents decried the violence, and for years, family members of the victims wondered whether they would see any justice.
"It's very difficult to be trapped in this space where you don't know what's going to happen, and it feels like there's no justice, and the world just passes you by, and people start to forget her and Darian as well," Brown's sister, Hannah Carter, told regional Fox affiliate WXIN.
This week, however, authorities arrested Brimmage. It is unclear whether investigators have another suspect on their radar, too.
The probable cause affidavit filed in Brimmage's case reportedly outlines a multitude of other crimes police suspect he was involved in around the time of the double murder. These allegations include driving a getaway car in a shooting less than a day after, setting a house and car on fire, and shooting at people escaping.
Brimmage pleaded guilty to arson and criminal recklessness and is currently serving prison time for those crimes, according to WXIN.
Brown was a therapist who "loved cats, working out, sunbathing on vacation, shopping, candy and her tattoos," according to her obituary. "She was an avid reader and loved learning how to cook. Liv was full of life and loved helping others."
Wiley "enjoyed music of all kind, trying to play guitar, he enjoyed golf and most of all hanging with his friends and being the light of the party," his obituary states. "He made sure you laughed!"
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