INDIANAPOLIS — A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the murder of a 16-year-old boy.

On July 11, IMPD officers came to the 2900 block of North Mitthoeffer Road for a report of a person shot. Officers ended up at a BP gas station on the far east side of Indianapolis.

Once there, police started providing aid to the victim, identified as 16-year-old Rodney Ward Jr., until EMS personnel arrived. Ward Jr. was transported to a local hospital where he later died.

After months of investigating, detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) arrested 19-year-old Michael Kevin Jones.

IMPD said they found Jones earlier this week inside a vehicle with two other men who had firearms with them. One of the men was identified as David Barbee.

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