UPDATE: Thursday July 16, 2015, 11:49 AM
Detectives have arrested 40-year-old Farrell Downey Jr. and preliminarily charge him with Murder. After being questioned by detectives the suspect was arrested and transported to the Arrestee Processing Center where he is currently being held. The suspect does not yet have a current booking photo, so the attached is a previous booking photo.
Thursday July 16, 2015, 6:42 AM
At approximately 3:30 a.m., officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were sent to the 1800 block of N. Shortridge Rd. on the report a person had been shot. When officers arrived they found, lying on the front porch of a duplex, an adult female with at least one gunshot wound. The female victim was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS crews. The victim’s name will not be released until family members have been appropriately notified.
Detectives quickly gathered information that implicated the victim’s boyfriend as the suspected shooter. The boyfriend subsequently turned himself into police, with a gun, around 6:15 a.m. at IMPD headquarters. He has been identified as 40-year-old male.
Detectives preliminarily believe that this incident may have stemmed from a domestic disturbance. Detective will interview the suspect and provide updates after he has been questioned.