16-year-old charged as adult in Beech Grove shooting of 18-year-old

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 16-year-old boy will be charged as an adult in connection to the September murder of an 18-year-old girl in Beech Grove during a marijuana sale, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday.

Emanual Carter was 15 when Beech Grove Police Department apprehended him the day after the fatal shooting of MaKayla Bauman. It happened just after 9 p.m. Sept. 29 in the 5400 block of Fetterbush Lane at the Park View at Beech Grove Apartments. That’s off Churchman Avenue between South Arlington Avenue and Emerson Avenue.

Charges were filed against Carter on Monday in Marion Superior Court 28 and he was formally charged on Wednesday, court documents show. He’s charged with two counts of murder, a high-level felony count of attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury; and a misdemeanor charge of dangerous possession of a firearm.

Investigators in court documents said the fatal shooting happened during a planned marijuana sale. Bauman had connected with Carter on Snapchat, where he was known as “man man.”

A witness identified Carter as the shooter, telling investigators that Carter and another person approached Bauman’s vehicle and demanded everything, and that’s when shots rang out.

Shell casings collected at the shooting scene indicated that two different firearms were used.

The Beech Grove Police Department and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department conducted the investigation.

IMPD does not release jail-booking photos of people younger than 18, even when they are charged as adults.

Carter lives on the east side of Indianapolis near Washington Park. He was incarcerated in the Marion County jail on Thursday night. Online court records show he will be held on no bond, and a court-appointed attorney was appointed for him at the court’s expense.

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