Dominic Johnson was taken into custody soon after 68-year-old Will Allen Edmond was shot at 31 West Ohio Street — a block north of Monument Circle — shortly before 10 p.m. May 11. Edmond died later that night at Eskenazi Hospital.
According to a probable cause affidavit, a hotel security guard found Edmond on his knees, shot in the street in front of the Sheraton Hotel. Another man wearing a brown coat, the guard told police, stood in front of Edmond and picked up a white bag. He headed north in an alley.
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Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department detained the Indianapolis man in an alley behind the Fifth Third Bank building roughly a block north of the hotel.
Another witness told officers they saw Johnson run into the AT&T building just north of the scene, but another security guard stopped him from entering. Investigators in the affidavit said AT&T security told detectives Johnson dropped several items in the building “as if he was trying to hide” them.
An officer found the white plastic bag “just inside” the AT&T building and felt what appeared to be a firearm inside, according to the affidavit.
Police found one fired 9mm cartridge at the scene.
Detectives say Johnson during interviews with police admitted to shooting Edmond once in self-defense with a 9mm handgun he carried in a white bag. He went on to say Edmond had been following him for three days and told detectives he was going to shoot “an unknown person that pulled up to him.”
He told police he stole the handgun a few months before the shooting and only had two bullets at the time.
The affidavit said police recovered the 9mm Ruger Handgun with one round left inside the white bag wrapped in a camouflage sweatshirt.
A pretrial conference for Johnson is scheduled for July 27.