INDIANAPOLIS — A Marion County teen will serve the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of shooting and killing three individuals in October 2021 on the south side of Indianapolis.
According to a news release from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, Caden Smith was sentenced to 189 years in prison on Friday. Smith was convicted of the following charges after a five-day trial in August:
- Three counts of murder
- Two counts of felony murder
- Two counts of robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, each a Level 2 felony
- One count of possession of methamphetamine, a Level 3 felony
- One count of dangerous possession of a machine gun, a Level 5 felony
- One misdemeanor count of dangerous possession of a firearm
- One misdemeanor count of resisting law enforcement
- One misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana.
According to previous reports , Smith killed three people over the course of two nights, including 17-year-old Abdulla Mubarak, 18-year-old Joseph Thomas and 22-year-old Michael James. Smith took the three individuals to a vacant lot in the 4400 block of South Meridian Street to show them he had a pistol modified to fire as a machine gun.