Indianapolis, IN
Shelby County man arrested in shooting involving ‘Bob & Tom’ personality
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Shelby County man has been arrested and charged with tried homicide and a gun violation in connection to a December taking pictures involving a well known radio persona, in accordance with police and courtroom data.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Workplace served Paul Berkemeier, of Fountaintown, with an arrest warrant on Thursday. He was within the Marion County Jail on Friday afternoon.
Investigators accused Berkemeier of firing pictures right into a automotive and injuring Ronald Sexton, who’s often called “Donnie Baker,” a comic and recurring character on Westwood One’s “The Bob & Tom Present.”
In Marion Superior Court docket 29, Berkemeier was charged Wednesday with tried homicide, and illegal carrying of a handgun by a felon. He’s scheduled to look in courtroom on Tuesday, on-line courtroom data present. A Marion County decide unsealed the case’s data Friday.
The taking pictures resulted from a dispute over the girl who’s each Berkemeier’s spouse and Sexton’s girlfriend, courtroom paperwork say.
Sexton was in Indianapolis after ending a efficiency in a comedy present in Portland, Indiana. Sexton contacted the girl and requested her to fulfill him at a bar.
After leaving the bar, they drove individually to a parking storage to drop off her automotive. Sexton by no means made it to the parking storage.
Sexton started driving on Shadeland Avenue when a car that was touring behind his automotive pulled as much as his driver’s facet, and pictures have been fired.
Sexton instructed investigators that he acknowledged the shooter as Berkemeier.
IMPD was referred to as at 2 a.m. Dec. 11 to the 8000 block of North Shadeland Avenue. That’s a business space on the town’s northeast facet. The taking pictures occurred close to the Lowe’s Dwelling Enchancment retailer on Shadeland Avenue and adjoining to I-69, police say.
Police didn’t discover a gun after they served the arrest warrant, however they did discover ammunition across the house. Investigators additionally discovered a sedan just like the car that was touring behind Sexton’s automotive.
Investigators discovered that Berkemeier was convicted of felony thefts in 2017 and 2011.
“Throughout and on account of the investigation into Berkemeier’s attainable function of pictures fired, he was arrested on unrelated offenses in Shelby County,” an IMPD spokesman stated in a information launch.
In Shelby Circuit Court docket, Berkemeier has pending felony expenses of possession of methamphetamine, sustaining a typical nuisance, and possession of a narcotic drug. He additionally faces lesser expenses of possession of paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, and possession of a managed substance. His preliminary listening to in that case was Jan. 5. He’s scheduled for a pretrial listening to on Feb. 23, on-line courtroom data present.
IMPD couldn’t till Monday on the earliest present a jail-booking picture of Berkemeier, whose title was misspelled Friday afternoon in on-line jail data.
Assertion
“The Marion County prosecutor has issued a warrant for the arrest of Paul Berkemeier, charging him with tried homicide within the taking pictures involving Ron Sexton on December 11, 2022. Mr. Berkemeier is presently in custody in Shelby County Jail.
“Ron wish to thank the Indianapolis police, and particularly Detective Ryan Gootee, for his or her exhausting work in securing an arrest. Ron and his household are relieved that an arrest has been made, and ask for privateness whereas they get well as a household. It has been a tough few weeks ready for an arrest.
“Ron recognized Paul Berkemeier as the person who fired a number of gun pictures into his rental automotive within the early morning hours of December eleventh. Ron is personally acquainted with Mr. Berkemeier. Due to the continued investigation, it could be inappropriate to take a position a couple of motive for the taking pictures, aside from to say that Ron Sexton was the meant goal of the taking pictures, and that the clear function of the taking pictures was to trigger him severe hurt.
“Ron and his household usually are not able presently to debate any particulars past what has been acknowledged. They ask for public’s understanding and significantly recognize the priority that has been expressed thus far.”
“Assertion on behalf of Ronald Sexton” from Jay L. Kanzler, legal professional