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27-year-old suspect charged in northwest Indy deadly shooting

Police said the shooting happened around 3 a.m. May 26 near West 30th Street and Lafayette Road.

INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating a deadly shooting that happened on the west side of Indianapolis in May.

Police said they received a report of a person shot near West 30th Street and Lafayette Road around 3 a.m. May 26.

Officers arrived to find 38-year-old Quincey Ross who had been shot. Medics transported the victim to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

IMPD homicide detectives responded to the scene to start an investigation. After speaking with witnesses, looking at video camera footage and analyzing forensic evidence, detectives said they identified the suspect as 27-year-old Keoni Lands, of Indianapolis.

On July 15, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office was granted a warrant to arrest Lands on charges of murder and unlawful carrying of a handgun.

Police said Lands, who was already being held on drug dealing charges from a previous arrest, was served with the warrant for murder on July 16.

"Drinking, guns...just go home," said Tiffany Wesseler, has lived in the Eagledale neighborhood for decades.

She said in the parking lot where Ross was fatally shot, people come to party when the liquor store closes.

"There's been times when it's so full, they can't get in. There's been times when there was a police officer sitting over there," Wesseler said.

IMPD confirmed an off-duty officer sat in the liquor store's parking lot every weekend last year from July to mid-October.

It's unclear who paid the off-duty officer during those weekends.

But since then, things have gone back to the way they were.

"It's just really sad because our neighborhood is old, but yet the people that live here, they pick up their trash, they take care of things, and they keep their eye out for each other, but when you have someone who doesn't want to participate in doing the right thing, that's when we have a problem," Wesseler said.

According to IMPD reports, police responded to the liquor store's address one other time this year prior to Ross' shooting death. That incident was for lost property in April.

Police have not said whether they think Ross' death was connected to any larger gathering.

13News reached out to the liquor store about what neighbors told us, but at last check, we have not heard back from them. 

Anyone with additional information on the incident is asked to contact Det. James Hurt at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or James.Hurt@indy.gov. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.

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