INDIANAPOLIS — Officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department stated that an arrest has been made in relation to a fatal shooting that occurred on the east side of Indianapolis earlier this month.
In a post on social media from IMPD, officials stated that homicide detectives, along with the department’s violent crimes unit, arrested a 20-year-old man following the fatal shooting on Sept. 5 in the 9700 block of East 21st Street.
The department did not identify the person who was taken into custody in the post. However, a police report identified him as 20-year-old Landon Snorten-Martin, an Indianapolis resident.
According to previous reports, officers were called to the 9700 block of East 21st Street around 6:08 a.m. on Sept. 5. At the time, officers located 38-year-old Johnny Edward Johnson Jr. inside a home with a gunshot wound.
Police investigating fatal shooting on east side of Indianapolis
Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene. The department initially labeled the shooting as a “justifiable homicide” but later updated it to be “homicide/murder.”…