INDIANAPOLIS -- The person accused in a fatal Nov. 2017 shooting was not allowed to have a gun, but that information didn't show up during a police investigation days before the shooting.
The shooting took place Nov. 19, 2017, in the 1800 block of Cottage Avenue.
Two victims, 21-year-old Eric Hoffman and 32-year-old William Koenig III, died from injuries sustained in the shooting. A third woman, Jessica Smith, had to be rushed into surgery for two gunshots wounds. She was nine months pregnant at the time.
Doctors were able to deliver Smith’s child safely. But now, she's wondering if it all could have been prevented.
"I've played that day over and over in my head so many times," Smith said.
Her neighbor, Kalee England, admitted to shooting the dog, police say. But what police didn't know is that he was convicted of domestic battery in the Huntington Superior Court -- meaning he's not allowed to carry a gun.
"I just wonder like - if they would have done their job or if they'd been able to see more," Smith said.
The officers who investigated the shooting of the dog only have the authorization to search someone's criminal history in Marion County.
"Based on the information, they gathered a local criminal history they would not have," IMPD spokesperson Genae Cook said. "They followed the procedures with the information they had in front of them."
Koenig -- Jessica's boyfriend -- came home and confronted England about the shooting, Smith said.
According to a probable cause, Marquis Cracraft -- England's brother -- grabbed a gun and shot Koenig's friend and Koenig.
When Smith ran over, he shot her twice in the stomach, documents show.
"I just kept praying and praying and praying that [Koenig] and the baby were OK," she said.
Her baby, Raelynn, was OK. But Koenig died the day his daughter was born.
Thee months later, Smith can't help wondering if police had been able to see England's domestic battery charge from Huntington, maybe Koenig would still be alive.
"It could have played out a hundred different ways, but maybe it wouldn't have ended with him being gone," Smith said.
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