INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man has been arrested for a shooting on Interstate 70 that killed one person and injured another.
State police arrested 24-year-old Julius Willis on Wednesday for the March 25 shooting, which ended in a crash on the east side of Indianapolis.
Officers investigating the crash near 21st Street and Emerson Avenue around 4 a.m. found two gunshot victims in the car. One of the victims, 30-year-old Anthony Shelman of Indianapolis, died at the hospital. Shelman's passenger, a 35-year-old man, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The shooting was the 11th on Indianapolis-area interstates in 2023.
According to court documents, the surviving victim, who was shot in the hand, told police that they had been at a strip club on West 16th Street with Shelman prior to the shooting. The victim stated that they laid down in the back seat with Shelman driving, and eventually heard loud noises and realized they were being shot at while on I-70.
Detectives spotted the car of the suspected shooter on surveillance video from the area of 21st Street and Emerson Avenue, and traced it to an owner who said her sons both drove the car as well, court documents indicated.
One 9mm bullet was found inside the sedan, which appeared consistent with the bullet removed from Shelman's body, according to court documents. Surveillance footage showed the car matching the description of that sedan appearing to follow the victims from the area of the strip club.
Video from the strip club showed a man, believed by police to be Willis, exiting and later re-entering the same car after entering the strip club, according to court documents.
Willis was taken into custody without incident as police executed a search warrant on the southwest side of Indianapolis. He was preliminarily charged with murder and attempted murder.
During the search, police also took 24-year-old Krishawna Cleveland into custody after discovering suspected methamphetamine in the home. She was booked into the Marion County Justice Center on preliminary charges of dealing methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine.