HOPE, Ind. — An 18-year-old man is dead after a shooting Saturday night in Hope.
Police and deputies found Jesse Bragg, 18, of Hope with a gunshot wound inside a home in the 300 block of Elm Street. He died at the scene.
Coroner Clayton Nolting ruled Bragg's death a homicide caused by a gunshot to the chest.
The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office says another 18-year-old man from Fowler was arrested on a reckless homicide charge.
Bartholomew County prosecutors on Thursday charged Joseph T. Kidwell with reckless homicide, a level 5 felony carries a sentence of one to six years in prison if convicted.
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