INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with an April double shooting on Indianapolis' northwest side that killed a 16-year-old boy and critically injured a man.
The shooting happened shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday, April 11 in the 400 block of West 25th Street, just east of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street. Responding officers found a male, later identified as 16-year-old Keith Louis Ray, dead in the street.
A short time later, a man arrived at Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound(s). Detectives gathered information, "which led them to believe the two shooting incidents were connected," the department said.
Gershom Hannah, 21, of Indianapolis, was located Friday, Sept. 6, by Violent Crimes Unit detectives and taken into custody "without incident," IMPD said in a social media post.
Prosecutors filed formal charges against Hannah for murder, robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, attempted murder and aggravated battery.
According to court documents, multiple people told detectives that Ray had planned to rob someone for a gun.
The man who was shot allegedly told police he arrived in a car to meet Ray, who got in the back seat, with Hannah standing on the curb. The man claims Hannah opened the back driver's side door and pointed a gun at him. The man also said Ray pointed a gun and him. The man told police he shot at both Ray and Hannah, with Hannah returning fire and hitting him.
Detectives then spoke with Hannah, who allegedly said Ray had messaged him earlier on the day of the shooting about committing a robbery. Hannah claims the man he and Ray met pointed a gun at Ray. That's when Hannah told detectives he had to "do what I had to do."
While taking Hannah into custody, police said 22-year-old Rayvonce Norris, of Indianapolis, was with him and ran from police. He was quickly taken into custody, and prosecutors charged him with two counts of possession of cocaine and one count of resisting law enforcement.
Pike Township Schools confirmed to 13News that Ray was a student at Pike High School.
Anyone with additional information on the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.