The details about how Jeffrey Finkel would end up gunned down inside his home remain murky, but court documents released after Indianapolis police fatally shot a domestic violence suspect could hold some clues.

Before a call for help was placed minutes before 4 a.m. Nov. 22 from the 1700 block of James Run Way on the city's southeast side, home security footage captured a shadowy figure slashing vehicle tires in a driveway before slipping behind Finkel's house.

It's that vandalism that put Robert Bido, 37, on investigators' radar and led to them calling him a "person of interest" in a homicide after Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department SWAT officers shot and killed him at about 1:30 p.m., Nov. 25, in Franklin, a town roughly 25 miles south of the state's capital.

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