INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD arrested a suspect Wednesday in connection with a deadly shooting on Indianapolis' near east side earlier in the day.
The shooting was reported around 1 p.m. Sept. 4 on South Gray Street, near East Washington and South Rural streets.
Responding officers located a man who had been shot, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the deceased as 40-year-old Craig Esmon Jacobs.
Later that day, officers responded to the 2800 block of East Edgewood Avenue, near McFarland Road on Indianapolis' south side, for a report of an armed person, who was believed to be the suspect in the Gray Street shooting, an IMPD spokesperson said in a statement.
IMPD Aviation Unit and SWAT officers took the suspect, a 53-year-old man, into custody "without incident," and he was arrested on a preliminary murder charge, police said.
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Anyone with additional information on the incident is asked to contact Det. Noe Reyes at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email Noe.Reyes@indy.gov.
Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.