INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD announced the arrest of a 32-year-old man Friday in connection with a 2020 homicide on the city's near east side.
The department previously stated that around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2020, officers were called to the 2500 block of English Avenue, near Southeastern Avenue and South Rural Street, where they found an unresponsive woman.
The woman, later identified as 31-year-old Brittany Burns, was taken in critical condition to a local hospital, where she died Oct. 19.
The Marion County Coroner's Office later ruled Burns' death as a homicide and said she died of trauma including asphyxia and blunt force injuries.
On May 22, 2024, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged the 32-year-old man identified by police as a suspect with murder. He was taken into custody May 22 in Shelby County, IMPD said.
An initial hearing for the suspect is scheduled for May 28, according to online court records.
