Man wounded in double shooting claims self-defense but is charged with murder

INDIANAPOLIS — A Hendricks County man is charged with murder in Marion County after he was wounded in a double shooting on Indy’s east side.

The shooting took place on the Sunday morning of Nov. 24, 2024, at approximately 2:35 a.m. 43-year-old Theodore Helpling III was shot and died on the scene along E. New York Street .

Court records claim the violence began when the suspect and victim got into a fight outside the New Yorker Bar…

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