Indianapolis police announced Monday they have arrested an 18-year-old man in the shooting death of a pastor’s pregnant wife during an apparent home invasion.
Larry Taylor of Indianapolis was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder in this month’s death of 28-year-old Amanda Blackburn. Officers from the department’s gang and violent crime units arrested Taylor with help from U.S. Marshals, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department news release.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Taylor had an attorney. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office was expected to review the case.
“All victims of criminal homicides deserve closure, and as a community we must send a collective message that violence is not an option,” Police Chief Rick Hite said in the statement. “Our detectives have worked tirelessly going days without sleep to solve murders in our city.”
Authorities said investigators would continue to follow all leads, including talking with individuals who may have knowledge of the case.
Blackburn was shot in the head during the attack on Nov. 10 and died the next day. She was 13 weeks pregnant and the child did not survive, a family spokeswoman has said. The Blackburns also have a 15-month-old son, who was upstairs in a crib at the time of the attack.
Investigators believe the suspect, whom neighbors also reported seeing walking in the area, may have seen Blackburn’s husband, Davey, leave early in the morning to go to a gym shortly after the suspect allegedly burglarized a nearby house. Police had sought the public’s help by circulating images of a man caught on home surveillance cameras.
The Blackburns moved to Indianapolis from South Carolina to found the independent Resonate Church in 2012.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Shoot him in the head and move on enough is enough
First, shoot him between the legs, then after a couple of hours, shoot him in the head.
HANG THE THING IN THE PARK AND LET THE BUZZARDS CLEN THE MEAT OFF HIS BODY.
Don’t waste taxpayers money on a trial and free food, lodging, and medical care in jail for the rest of his life. Throw him in a cell, lock the door, and forget about him, then check on him in a month to see if he’s dead yet!
make quick work of this dirt bag
Reports of “many alarm company signs in yards of neighbors” should have been a tip off to burglary problem and need for neighborhood watch and neighborhood video surveillance.
I totally AGREE with the other comments. Although I think Chain Him to a BIG TREE, Cut a Nut off.. Leave a blood trail so every
predator around will show up and start gnawing. Nice, SLOW & PAINFUL Death!!
Animals deserve to Die Like Animals!!
While I agree with the above sentements, as a practical matter, we know it aint gona happen! What should happen is in cases like this is that there should be a federal law covering all 50 states that requires the death penalty that overrides any piticular state that has a no death penealty. When a murder is commited with malace aforthought or a crime with a gun even when murder was not the intent, death should be the only penealty. And it should be done publicy, on closed certcit TV. This was a double murder by the way.
Yes–the prosecutor should ask for two counts of murder. But it is unlikely that he / she will ask for it because that would be acknowledging that abortion is murder and we can’t have that, can we?
A family destroyed because some punk thought it would be fun to terrorize them. There is NO fear of God in the land. He may get the fear of God put into him when he goes to jail–I surely hope so.
It’s too bad he wasn’t killed during the arrest
Wallace Tilander