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Suspect in custody in connection with weekend bar shooting

Metro police are investigating a fatal shooting at an east Indianapolis bar early Saturday morning.
Credit: IMPD
Derek Whitt

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - There's new information on an arrest made in an east side bar fight that turned deadly.

Derek Whitt is now charged in the murder of 31-year-old David Ballinger.

His initial hearing in court is set for Wednesday.

It happened early Saturday morning at Bar 52 on English Avenue near South Sherman Drive.

Police say a fight that broke out inside the business, spilled into a parking lot and then ended in gunfire.

With that death and another on Monday, there have now been 102 murders so far in 2018 across Indianapolis.

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