INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Police say an Indianapolis teenager facing murder and other charges in the slaying of a 24-year-old Indianapolis man on his morning walk forced the victim into a strip club parking lot before shooting him once in the abdomen.
Prosecutors filed charges of murder, felony murder, attempted robbery and carrying a handgun without a license in adult court Tuesday against the 16-year-old suspect.
The youth was being held the Marion County Juvenile Center in connection with the fatal April 1 shooting of Nathan Trapuzzano outside Club Venus about a mile east of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Police say the teenager’s recovering from a gunshot wound he received during a separate shooting the same day.
Donations totaling more than $130,000 poured in for Trapuzzano’s pregnant widow in the days following the slaying.
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