INDIANAPOLIS — A man was charged with murder today in the death of an IndyCar team mechanic during a fight last month outside a bar.

David "Davey" Evans, 63, a crewman with Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, died May 4 outside the Kazablanka Bar, which is attached to the hotel where team members were staying for the Indianapolis 500.

James P. Brackin of Indianapolis was charged Tuesday and was being held without bond on one count of murder, said Matthew Symons, a spokesman for Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi. A pretrial conference was scheduled in Marion Superior Court for July 8.

Symons said Brackin had an attorney, but the attorney's identity could not be ascertained after courthouse hours.

Witnesses said after Brackin and Evans argued inside the bar about a woman, Brackin followed Evans outside, jumped on a table and kicked him in the head, according to a probable cause affidavit. When police arrived, they found Evans unconscious on the deck outside the bar, and he was pronounced dead at Wishard Hospital about 40 minutes later.

The next day, Brackin denied going out to the deck but later began crying and told Detective Tom Lehn, "If I did something to him I didn't mean to do it," the affidavit said.

Brackin could face 45 to 65 years in prison if convicted.