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    Police Arrest Man in 1993 Murder of 19-Year-Old Carmen Van Huss

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    For more than 30 years, the case had remained unsolved. While questions remain, the police said they had linked a 52-year-old Missouri man to DNA at the crime scene.More than three decades after Carmen Van Huss was found dead in her Indianapolis apartment, a homicide victim at 19, the police said on Tuesday that they had arrested a suspect, a break in a cold case that had long consumed the Van Huss family.The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Boone County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri arrested Dana Shepherd, 52, in Columbia, Mo., on Friday in connection with Ms. Van Huss’s death. The authorities charged Mr. Shepherd with murder, felony murder and rape, according to Ryan Mears, the Marion County prosecutor.“Thirty-one years ago she was tragically killed, and today we finally have some answers,” Kendale Adams, the deputy chief of the Indianapolis police criminal investigations division, said at a news conference on Tuesday. Jimmy Van Huss Jr., Ms. Van Huss’s younger brother, thanked law enforcement officials for their efforts to bring the case to a close.“There’s a lot of people that missed Carmen all these years,” Mr. Van Huss said. “She had a lot of family, a lot of friends.”Mr. Van Huss said he was a freshman in high school when his sister was killed. “We were becoming a lot closer as she was taken from us,” he said. “She wasn’t able to experience her college graduation or have a wedding or any life events that she missed out on.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Man Who Killed 4 After Dispute Over Stimulus Check Gets 145 Years in Prison

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      Malik Halfacre, 28, wounded his girlfriend and killed four of her family members in Indianapolis in 2021 after a dispute with her over money, prosecutors said.An Indianapolis man who killed four people, including a child, after a dispute with his girlfriend over a coronavirus stimulus check was sentenced on Friday to 145 years in prison.The man, Malik Halfacre, 28, pleaded guilty in June to four murder counts in the March 2021 shooting deaths of Eve Moore, 7; Dequan Moore, 23; Anthony Johnson, 35; and Tomeeka Brown, 44, in Indianapolis. He also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Jeanettrius Moore, then his girlfriend, whom the police say Mr. Halfacre shot multiple times. The four people killed were relatives of Ms. Moore.Judge Jeffrey Marchal of Marion Superior Court sentenced Mr. Halfacre to two consecutive 57-year prison terms for the murder counts and a 31-year prison term for the attempted murder count, according to court records.On the night of March 13, 2021, the police received a report of a person shot inside an Indianapolis home.Malik Halfacre.Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, via Associated PressThe victim was Ms. Moore, who had fled to a neighbor’s home after being shot. Before she was taken to a hospital, Ms. Moore told the police that there were multiple victims inside her home. She told them that Mr. Halfacre had fled and taken their 6-month-old daughter.The police eventually found the young girl at Mr. Halfacre’s sister’s home. They caught Mr. Halfacre the next day after an hourslong standoff at a friend’s home, where he was hiding.Mr. Halfacre later told investigators that he and Ms. Moore had been arguing because he “wanted some of her stimulus check,” according to a probable cause affidavit.Mr. Halfacre also admitted that he had shot everyone in his girlfriend’s home and then stole her purse and fled in her car with their daughter, the affidavit said. He told the police that he had dropped their daughter off at his sister’s house.As part of the deal under which Mr. Halfacre pleaded guilty, related charges of armed robbery, auto theft and illegal possession of a handgun were dropped. More

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      Joe Hogsett Wins a Third Term as Indianapolis Mayor

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      Joe Hogsett, a Democrat, won a third term as mayor of Indianapolis, defeating a Republican businessman who spent more than $13 million of his own money on the race. Mr. Hogsett announced his win to supporters on Tuesday evening after his opponent, Jefferson Shreve, delivered a concession speech as votes were still being counted. Mr. Hogsett, a 67-year-old former federal prosecutor, contended on the campaign trail that he was better equipped to increase public safety, create jobs and improve the city’s infrastructure. Mr. Shreve, criticized Mr. Hogsett’s record on economic development and policing, noting that the police department has struggled with staffing shortages.The race to run Indianapolis, the capital and most populous city of Indiana, was more expensive than any previous mayoral campaign in the city, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.Mr. Shreve, a former Indianapolis City-County Council member whose company built storage facilities across the Midwest, amassed more than $14 million, nearly all self funded. Mr. Hogsett raised just over $6 million.Indianapolis, a left-leaning metropolis of about 880,000 residents in a state that Republicans have come to dominate, has a history of electing both Democratic and Republican mayors. Though Democrats hold a large majority on the City-County Council, Mr. Hogsett’s predecessor, Greg Ballard, is a Republican.Mr. Hogsett and Mr. Shreve agreed on several issues. Both said that the city urgently needed to hire more police officers and vowed to make major investments to improve roads and revitalize the downtown district. They also said that they would urge state lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws.On the campaign trail, Mr. Hogsett asserted that the city was on solid footing after a challenging period that included the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a surge of violence in 2021. That year, Indianapolis had a record number of homicides, including a shooting that killed nine people at a FedEx warehouse. Mr. Hogsett campaigned on his efforts to pass balanced city budgets for seven consecutive years, including a budget for 2024, totaling $1.5 billion, that the City-County Council approved unanimously last month.During the final weeks of the race, the city’s overcrowded animal shelter emerged as a contentious issue. Indianapolis has been working on a plan to move the shelter, Indianapolis Animal Care Services, to a new $30 million facility. Mr. Shreve, who has said he is passionate about animal welfare, vowed to donate his salary as mayor to Indianapolis Animal Care Services and to move expeditiously to build a new shelter that has adequate space and resources. More