INDIANAPOLIS -- Police have one suspect in custody and are seeking the public’s help in locating a second suspect in a triple shooting earlier this month that killed a woman and left two other victims seriously injured.
Fransuah Mathews, 36, was arrested Tuesday on charges of murder, attempted murder, robbery and aggravated battery in connection with the April 19 shooting on the west said that killed 24-year-old Kylie Price.
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A second suspect, 34-year-old Anthony Dewayne Smith, was still being sought by police Thursday evening on the same charges.
BREAKING: @IMPDnews is looking for Anthony Dewayne Smith, 34, in connection with the fatal shooting of Kylie Price earlier this month. Details here: https://t.co/8jtSzFjtSj pic.twitter.com/jDY0mdvQIS
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In addition to Price, the shooting left Price’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Bradley Jones, and his father, 40-year-old Ralph Jones, in critical condition. The elder Jones was temporarily on a ventilator following the shooting, and doctors believe he will be left paralyzed from the waist down. The younger Jones is also believed to have suffered permanent nerve damage to one arm and has a bullet fragment lodged too close to his spine to be safely removed.
In a probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday, police say Bradley told them his father had arranged a methamphetamine deal with two men, later identified as Mathews and Smith, at the Cloverleaf Apartments. Ralph was also looking to sell the men a .357-caliber revolver.
Bradley told police that he saw his father and the two men walk around the corner of a building, and then heard gunshots. He said the two men then came around the corner and began firing at him and Price, striking him multiple times in the elbow and shoulder and fatally wounding her.
Ralph was shot multiple times in the chest and shoulder area. Doctors placed him on a ventilator until April 23, at which point he was able to be taken off and was then interviewed by police. During that interview, investigators say Ralph identified photographs of Mathews and Smith as the men who shot him. He was scheduled to return to surgery Tuesday to remove shrapnel lodged near his heart.
While waiting for the older Jones to recover, police spoke with the Joneses’ family, who reportedly told them both men were “involved in selling and using methamphetamine.” Police also learned that Ralph had just received money from an insurance settlement and had been posting photos of large amounts of cash on his Facebook just hours priors to the shooting.
As of Thursday evening, police were asking for help in locating Smith. They said he should be considered armed and dangerous, and should not be approached.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts was asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS Your call may remain anonymous.
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