Indiana Metropolitan Police Department released a statement to the media, “we’re grateful to our national, state and local ventures that assisted in the apprehension of the defendant in this terrible and senseless offense”.
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Blackburn is the wife of former Upstate pastor Davey Blackburn, who worked at Newspring Church in Greenville.
Indianapolis police have arrested a man and detained two others over the death of a pastor’s pregnant wife, who was shot in the head during a suspected burglary.
A family spokesman says Amanda Blackburn was pregnant with the couple’s second child at the time of her death.
Sources within IMPD told 24-Hour News 8’s Julian Grace that Taylor was one of three men questioned last week, but he was later released. They say while two of the suspects left with her ATM card, Taylor reportedly raped and killed Amanda. “All casualties of criminal murders deserve close, and as a community we have to send a collective message that violence isn’t alternative”. “With the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler and Prosecutor Terry Curry justice will be done!”
Investigators linked the suspects to the Blackburn case through ATM receipts found in a auto the three had allegedly stolen earlier this month. The attack happened while Davey Blackburn was at the gym.
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The trio will also be charged with a burglary earlier that day at the home of a Blackburn neighbor.
