MUNCIE, Ind. — A second person has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting at a block party in Muncie.
Police arrested a 29-year-old man on preliminary charges of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and serious violent felon in possession of a firearm, both felonies, for his alleged role in the July 30 shooting at East Willard and South Hackley streets.
He was also arrested on active warrants.
The prosecutor's office filed a charge on Aug. 31 for unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.
The man is the second person arrested in the ongoing investigation. Earlier this month, 36-year-old John Vance Jr., of Yorktown, was arrested and charged in the case.
Thirty-year-old Joseph Bonner was killed in the shooting at the block party, which injured 18 others, including a woman who was run over by a car while she tried to run from the scene.
The suspect arrested Monday told detectives he watched Vance shoot Bonner and that Vance still had a gun raised in his direction after the shooting. The suspect said he then fired his Glock 43x toward Vance in self-defense.
Investigators ask anyone with information in the shooting to call the Muncie Police Department Detective Division at 765-747-4867 or Muncie Police Dispatch at 765-747-4838.