INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD arrested a 27-year-old man on a preliminary murder charge following a deadly shooting on Indianapolis' near west side Tuesday evening.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Feb. 27, officers responded to the 100 block of South Belmont Avenue, just south of West Washington Street, for a report of a person shot. Officers located a man with trauma who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the man as 40-year-old Randy Wayne White and said his death was a homicide.
"Based on various evidence, including cooperative community members," detectives identified the suspect, who was taken into custody on Feb. 29 without incident and arrested on a preliminary murder charge, IMPD said in a statement.
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The Marion County Prosecutor's Office will make final charging decisions in the case.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Detective David Miller at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email David.Miller2@indy.gov.
Calls can also be made anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.