INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man was sentenced for shooting and killed another man on the city's northeast side in 2023.

A judge sentenced Michael Coleman to 65 years in the Indiana Department of Correction after a jury found him guilty of the murder of 47-year-old Sunny Gilbert.

The shooting was reported around 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, at an auto shop in the 2300 block of East 38th Street, near North Keystone Avenue. Officers located Gilbert nearby in the 3800 block of Hillside Avenue .

Gilbert was taken in critical condition to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The prosecutor's office said before being taken to the hospital, Gilbert told officers that Coleman shot him.

Video from the auto shop showed Coleman walking into the garage bay and talking with a shop

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