I-465 shooting leads to discovery of drugs, explosives by Indiana police
A shots-fired investigation led Indianapolis police to uncover the identity of a man who was building homemade explosive devices in his house, as well as storing pounds of drugs throughout the property.
The Indiana State Police arrested the man on Sept. 11, 2025, and preliminarily charged him on one count of possession of a destructive device, criminal recklessness, dealing in a narcotic drug and dealing in marijuana. IndyStar is not naming the man because the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office had not formally charged him at the time of publication.
Shot fired on I-465
The investigation started on Aug. 21, 2025, after the Indiana State Police received a report shortly before 6 p.m. that a man on a green 2012 Kawasaki motorcycle had fired a handgun at another vehicle while traveling on I-465 northbound.
The man on the motorcycle was seen weaving in and out of traffic as it moved at a “stop and go” pace. The driver of a Buick Verano honked at the motorcyclist as he drove past the vehicle, according to court documents.
This prompted the motorcyclist to stop his vehicle, unholster his handgun, and point the firearm at the driver.
The driver of the Buick Veranor tried to get away from the motorcyclist by changing lanes, but as he did that, the motorcyclist fired one shot at the driver and then fired three more shots in the air before speeding away from the scene.
By the time officers arrived, the motorcyclist was gone, with officers only being able to recover one shell casing. Police were, however, able to obtain a photo of the motorcyclist after a FLOCK camera captured him exiting the interstate at the Allisonville Road exit at 5:57 p.m.
Police seek help from public
Indiana State Police on Aug. 26 used that image to ask the public for help identifying the motorcyclist.
That prompted a tip from the previous owner of the motorcycle, who explained to police that he had just sold the Kawasaki to a man in July. The information helped police identify the new owner via his Indiana driving record.
Indiana State Police then obtained a warrant to search the man’s home on Indianola Avenue in Indianapolis on Sept. 11, 2025.
Although deputies were initially searching for the weapon used in the shooting in August, when police entered the house, they were greeted by several illegal items littered throughout the property, according to court records.
On the dining room table were several homemade explosive devices and components needed to make a bomb, according to court records. Court records did not clarify why the man was making bombs or how many were found at the property.
Deputies also stumbled upon several bags of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms that were located in the basement of the property, and tools used to package these drugs to get them ready to be sold.
‘Probably because of the explosive devices’
While searching the house, deputies detained a man who lived at the property.
The deputy asked the man if he knew why the police were there.
“It was probably because of the explosive devices,” the man told the deputy, according to court documents. “They had detonated at least one device on the evening (before).”
The deputy said “no” and asked the question again.
The man replied that police were likely searching for the large amounts of “weed” and “mushrooms” that were hidden throughout the property. The man explained that the motorcyclist had gone to California in August to purchase the drugs.
The deputy said “no” and asked the question again.
“The shooting,” the man said, finally answering the officer’s question correctly.
Deputies eventually found the weapon they believe was used in the August shooting, the outfit the man wore that day, his motorcycle helmet and the green 2012 Kawasaki captured in the photo, according to police.
The man was taken into custody and is being held at the Marion County Jail. It’s unclear if the man’s friend will also face charges tied to what police found.
Idaho college murders: Victim’s siblings recall arriving at crime scene
ByKayna Whitworth and Emily Shapiro 
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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ABC News obtaining newly released body camera video from the King Road home where four University of Idaho students were murdered.
On the night of Nov. 12, 2022, University of Idaho student Ethan Chapin joined his sister, Maizie, at her sorority formal.
Once they got home, Ethan — the funny, quick-witted leader of the Chapin triplets, who all attended the University of Idaho — wanted to keep the fun going and texted Maizie.
“I think he said, ‘Dawg, come hang out. We all want you here,'” Maizie told ABC News. “I said, ‘I’m going to bed,’ I think, it was, like, 9. Or, ‘I’m not gonna go.'”
In a rare move, Ethan texted later, “Love you.”
“I didn’t even respond to that — I think I was asleep by then,” Maizie said.
Hours later, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, his girlfriend Xana Kerndole, and Kernodle’s roommates Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were all stabbed to death in the girls’ off-campus house. Two roommates inside survived.
The shocking quadruple killings shook the families and the small college town of Moscow to the core while police launched a massive manhunt for a suspect.
Days before news broke about a plea deal in the case, Ethan’s sister, Maizie, and brother, Hunter, spoke to ABC News to share their story for the first time. The family is also speaking out in a new documentary, “One Night in Idaho: The College Murders,” premiering on Amazon Prime Video on July 11.
On the morning of Nov. 13, a friend woke up Hunter at his fraternity to tell him police officers were across the street at Xana’s house, where Ethan often spent the night.
“I got dressed sluggishly,” Hunter said. “I wasn’t worried. … Ethan was 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, 230 pounds. … I was like, ‘Oh, he’ll be fine,’ like, if there was anything. Maybe someone drank too much and, I mean, that stuff does happen in college.”
“When I walked over there, I didn’t see him outside. So I figured he was inside helping whoever needed to be helped,” Hunter said.
That’s when their friend — who had gone inside the house at 1122 King Road that morning and made the chilling discovery — approached Hunter.
“I was like, ‘Where’s Ethan and Xana?'” Hunter recalled. “And he’s like, ‘They’re not here anymore.’ It’s like, ‘What do you mean, they’re not here anymore?’ He’s like, ‘I think they were murdered last night.'”
“I don’t know if those are the exact words,” Hunter said. “So I had to call Maizie and then call my mom.”
Maizie said she arrived at King Road to find her brother and their friends huddled outside. The house that had been their gathering place was now a crime scene. Ambulances had already come and gone, without taking any patients, the siblings said, and soon Maizie was in shock.
Stacy Chapin, Ethan’s mom, was at the grocery store when her son called.
“[Hunter] just said, “He’s not here,'” she recalled. “And he kept repeating it. … Your mind does not register that … so I was like, ‘Well, go get him. Go find him.'”
“And he just kept saying it,” Stacy Chapin said. “And he goes, ‘No, Mom. You don’t understand. Ethan and Xana,’ I think he said, ‘are not on this earth anymore.'”
Stacy and Jim Chapin jumped in the car in Washington state for the long, heartbreaking drive to their surviving children.
In December 2022, nearly seven weeks after the killings, Bryan Kohberger, a criminology Ph.D. student at nearby Washington State University at the time, was arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
Kohberger’s trial was set to start in August. However, on Monday, prosecutors revealed in a letter to the families that Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to all counts, sparing him from the death penalty.
Kohberger — who was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary — will be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences on the murder counts and the maximum penalty of 10 years on the burglary count, according to the plea agreement.
Kohberger will waive all right to appeal, the agreement said. The state also will seek restitution for the victims and their families, the agreement said.
Prosecutors anticipate sentencing to take place in late July, as long as Kohberger enters the guilty plea as expected at a change of plea hearing that’s scheduled for Wednesday, according to the letter received by the family of one of the victims.
‘I can’t pretend like I feel like this is justice’
The father of Kaylee Goncalves is blasting the plea deal offered to Kohberger, accusing the prosecutors of mishandling and rushing the deal.
“We were not prepared for this — we had no idea that this was going to happen,” Steve Goncalves told ABC News hours after the plea deal was announced.
Steve Goncalves told ABC News the subject of a possible plea deal was first broached at the end of their Friday meeting.
“Up until that point, we had never even considered it,” he said. “It was described to me as, like, due diligence. We’re going to, like, look at this option, see if it could fit.”
“At the least, justice starts with an interview of the families to ask them what justice is. And we didn’t get that,” he said.
On Monday, prosecutors sent a letter to the families informing them that Kohberger had accepted the proposed terms of the deal and would enter guilty pleas at a change of plea hearing on Wednesday.
“All of a sudden,” Steve Goncalves said, “the trial’s over. Two-and-a-half years of your life is over.”
“It’s the opposite of what we wanted and it’s the opposite of the majority of what the families wanted,” he said.
The Goncalves family is also frustrated with how little time they were afforded to mentally prepare — and make travel arrangements — for Kohberger’s Wednesday hearing.
