In the stillness of the early morning hours, a tragedy unfolded on the west side of Indianapolis that has since left a family in mourning and a community searching for answers. Just after midnight on Sunday—at precisely 12:11 a.m.—first responders were called to a distressing scene at a hotel near the airport. There, lying motionless beside the pool at the Courtyard by Marriott on Fortune Circle West, was Che’mari Thomas, only 24 years old.