
Indianapolis man convicted of 2023 Thanksgiving Day murder
An Indianapolis man was convicted by a jury for murdering a man on the city’s east side in 2023, according to WTHR.
An Indianapolis man was convicted by a jury for murdering a man on the city’s east side in 2023, according to WTHR.
Judge Margaret M. Garnett said in an order that statements by government officials about Luigi Mangione possibly facing the death penalty may have violated a local rule meant to limit public comments to ensure a fair trial.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson sentenced Jeremy Mack, 50, to an additional 30 years and five months in federal prison and $3,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his former cellmate, Stephen Cannada, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute.
The 22-year-old man now charged with the crime was texting with his romantic partner and acknowledging he was the shooter, court documents revealed.
The charge means Tyler Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Kirk last week at Utah Valley University in Orem.
Judge Gregory Carro said that although there is no doubt that the killing was not an ordinary street crime, New York law doesn’t consider something terrorism simply because it was motivated by ideology.
The governor noted that Robinson, who is not cooperating with law enforcement, disliked Kirk and may have been “radicalized” online.
Tyler Robinson, 22, had become “more political” in the run-up to the shooting and mentioned during a dinner with family that Kirk would be visiting Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox said at a news conference.
The shooter appeared to be of college age and blended in on the university campus where Kirk was killed Wednesday, authorities said.
The Indiana Supreme Court will hold traveling oral arguments later this month at Hanover College to hear an appeal from a 2021 Fort-Wayne murder case, in which the defense argued the trial court erred by allowing witness testimony remotely via Zoom.
Darius Butts was found guilty of murder by a Marion Superior Court jury on Wednesday after a two-day trial.
Vance Boelter, 58, of Green Isle, Minnesota, was indicted July 15 on six counts of murder, stalking and firearms violations after the largest manhunt in the state’s history.
Authorities said new DNA analysis helped connect Timothy R. Farber, 61, of Evansville, to the murder.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon sentenced Taquan Clarke, 31, for using a firearm to commit murder and conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
Joseph Vannote Jr., 13, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Madison Superior Court in the death of Mark Miles, 61, of Anderson.
An inmate at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex was sentenced to life in prison for allegedly murdering his cellmate in 2016.
A Marion County jury convicted a man of two counts of murder for his involvement in the shooting deaths of two men in January 2023.
A Delaware County judge sentenced a Muncie man to decades in prison Monday following the man’s February murder conviction for strangling a woman in 2020.
Delaware Circuit Court Judge John Feick sentenced Ceaser Curtis, 51, for the crime, which was committed in September 2023.
Bruce Mendenhall, 73, already is serving two life terms in Tennessee for a pair of murders and still faces trial for an Alabama murder.