EVANSVILLE – The son of a man Evansville police shot and killed last year faces a felony intimidation charge over a social media post in which EPD says he threatened “bloodshed.”
Dredon E. Nunn, 22, was booked into the Vanderburgh County jail Thursday afternoon and subsequently released on $500 bond, records state. In a Facebook post after his release, Nunn called his arrest a “strategic move by EPD” and said he’s “never made a direct threat toward anyone in the Evansville Police Department.”
“From the beginning, I told my family that I believed they would look for any reason to come after me,” he wrote. “For months, it has felt like I have been watched closely.”
EPD spokesman Sgt. Anthony Aussieker issued a brief news release on Nunn’s arrest Friday morning. He cited the post, which EPD also shared via social media themselves and to local media.
Based on the screenshot shared, the post appears to be in the form of a Facebook story. This means it would disappear in 24 hours, as opposed to a stagnant post that remains on a person’s profile page.
The story shows a photo of Nunn and his father, Everett Nunn, after a high school basketball game. The text over the photo shares how much Nunn misses his dad, and how unfair life is.
“From me to you, you will get justice systematically or through bloodshed,” the text states. “I’m tired of sleepless nights. I’m tired of it all and to see that coward die in front of me will probably be the last and only thing I need in this life. I love you forever dad.”
Is the investigation into the killing of Everett Nunn complete?
Nunn has been vocal since the killing of his father, calling for justice and critiquing the handling of the investigation by EPD.
Everrett Nunn, 58, was shot and killed by Evansville Police Officer Nicholas Helfert in November 2025.
Everett’s family repeatedly called for an outside agency to lead the investigation: a position that garnered at least some support from EPD Merit Commission President James Sutton, who recommended the Indiana State Police conduct an inquiry. At a December City Council meeting, Nunn’s daughter, Mariah Gross, and his son, Dredon Nunn, pleaded for an independent investigation.
But the investigation was handled internally, as is the protocol for EPD. Evansville Police Chief Phil Smith announced via a Facebook video in February that the investigation found Helfert did not violate policy or procedure when he shot and killed Everett Nunn.
The Nov. 22 shooting unfolded in a matter of seconds after Helfert was the first officer to respond to a reported domestic dispute in the unit block of East Louisiana Street.
Body-worn camera footage released by the department shows Helfert entering the white, wood-paneled home after Nunn’s longtime partner told the officer “there’s a gun in that house.”
According to police, Nunn held a replica firearm in the moments before Helfert opened fire at close range inside the cramped, dimly lit home. The all-black replica turned out to have been a novelty “smoking pipe,” an EPD official said in November, not a real firearm.
Helfert’s body-worn camera footage, which the department published days after the shooting, appeared to show Nunn dropping the replica pistol after declaring “it’s not a gun” just before Helfert fired the first shot.
In March, Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers announced her office would not pursue charges against Helfert after receiving the results of EPD’s internal investigation.
In her release, Moers shared multiple facts police hadn’t released. This included that Nunn’s daughter was leaving the home with a shopping bag when Helfert arrived on scene. The bag was later found to contain a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm handgun, the prosecutor’s office wrote in the news release.
Moers’ office also shared that while police were on the way to the residence, dispatch advised officers that Nunn was a domestic violence felony candidate and had an alert on his file that he was “extremely confrontational with officers during a traffic stop.”
‘I will continue to speak out’
In the Facebook post shared after his release from jail Thursday, Nunn said since the death of his father he hasn’t heard from anyone in the department offering support to his family or championing their efforts to create positive change.
“Yet it appears there is plenty of attention being given to monitoring my social media activity,” he states.
Nunn also calls out city leaders, who he states “publicly claim to stand for the people.”
“It is difficult to understand how these actions align with those promises after this arrest,” the post continues. “The reality is that while they seem to be tasked to monitoring me, my father lost his life, and many questions remain unanswered.”
Nunn said his focus has always been on accountability, justice and serving the community.
“I will continue to speak out, pursue justice, and stand on my constitutional rights,” Nunn states.
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Son of man Evansville police shot, killed arrested over Facebook post
Reporting by Sarah Loesch and Jon Webb, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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