Carroll said the neighborhood is a quiet one.

“I don’t know of an inordinate number of calls that come to this area. The only thing that jumps off the page is the burglary.”

Carroll said detectives spent much of Thursday morning canvassing the neighborhood, talking to neighbors who may have seen Blackmon prior to his murder. “We’re retracing the victim’s steps — where he was, who he talked to before the shooting.”

Neighbors reported seeing a black Chevrolet Blazer circling the neighborhood around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, but police could not confirm whether the vehicle was related to the shooting.

“We have received that information. In fact, we’re running down a lot of these leads right now,” Carroll said. “I’ve been in the neighborhood myself chasing down information.”

Jeff Rude, 33, lives in the building next to Blackmon’s apartment and said he did not hear shots fired and first learned of the homicide when police knocked on his door at 3:45 a.m.

Rude said Blackmon had only moved into the apartment a few months ago. “He mainly stayed to himself.

“It’s been a calm neighborhood,” said Rude, a three-year resident of the neighborhood. “You never know, that could’ve been my house.”

Frank McGuire, 51, was visiting the neighborhood shortly before the shooting and said it is the latest in a string of violent crimes in Anderson. “Anderson is starting to get like Indianapolis. You hear about all the murders in Indianapolis and it’s starting to get that way here.”

Have a tip?

Anyone with information about the shooting death of Andre Blackmon should call the Anderson Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at (765) 648-6730.