HOPE, Ind. — An 18-year-old from Fowler is in the Bartholomew County Jail, arrested for the deadly shooting of another 18-year-old in Hope Saturday night.
According to the sheriff's office, Jesse W. Bragg was shot in the chest inside a house on Elm Street in Hope. Bragg was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives from both the sheriff's office and Columbus Police investigated the shooting, and Joseph T. Kidwell was arrested for reckless homicide in Bragg's death.
Details on what led to the shooting were not shared by investigators.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the house shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday on a report of a person suffering from a gunshot wound and found Bragg.
There were no court records published over the weekend to indicate Kidwell has been formally charged. Reckless homicide is a level 5 felony. According to the sheriff's office, Kidwell was placed on a 48-hour hold at the jail.
On Dec. 28, the coroner's office performed a forensic autopsy. They ruled that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest and called it a homicide.