'Do you want to die?': 16-year-old facing adult murder charge after shooting at siblings during drug deal gone wrong, police say

A 16-year-old Indiana lad is being charged arsenic an big for a shooting that claimed the beingness of an 18-year-old during a cause woody gone wrong, according to authorities.

Court records amusement Emanuel Carter, who was 15 astatine the clip of the shooting, stands accused of murder and robbery. He's accused of shooting Makayla Bauman to decease connected Sept. 29, 2024, successful Beech Grove, an Indianapolis suburb. According to a probable origin apprehension affidavit obtained by section Fox affiliate WXIN and the Indianapolis Star, Bauman and her younger member drove to an flat analyzable to merchantability marijuana to Carter.

But erstwhile the member drove up to marque the deal, Carter and different idiosyncratic ran up with guns. One of them allegedly said "Give maine everything! Do you privation to die?" Bauman's member deed the car successful reverse successful an effort to get away, but Carter allegedly opened fire.

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"I deliberation I conscionable got shot," Bauman said.

One of the shots had deed her successful the chest. The member tried to thrust to the infirmary but helium reportedly noticed his sister was "fading out." He pulled the car implicit wherever officers recovered them. When constabulary arrived connected scene, helium was tending to his sister's slug wound. Paramedics rushed her to the infirmary wherever she died.

The member aboriginal told detectives that helium and Carter were classmates astatine Beech Grove High School. He was not definite of the different alleged gunman's identity.

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Cops identified the different shooter arsenic Carter's brother, nevertheless they person not said if helium is facing transgression charges. Carter reportedly told detectives that it was him and his member who were being robbed. He claimed that 1 of the radical successful the car pulled retired a weapon. But cops recovered nary grounds that Bauman oregon her member were ever armed.

Detectives spoke with different witnesser who said Carter told him helium was going to "rob a achromatic lad of immoderate marijuana," the affidavit reportedly said. Cops arrested Carter the time aft the shooting. Prosecutors filed execution charges against Carter successful big tribunal connected Monday.

Bauman's obituary described her personality.

"Makayla was known for her vibrant, outgoing personality, lighting up each country with her smile," it said. "She was compassionate, smart, and intelligent, ever ensuring determination was ne'er a dull infinitesimal whether she was buying oregon hanging retired with friends."