8A / NEWS / FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Senior citizen guns down officer during a traffic stop in Indianapolis
CRIME
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Moore was declared brain-dead
down in a crowded Thomas Hardy, whom state correction officials say had been erroneously released from jail in December, is scheduled to appear in court Friday in Officer David Moore's death. He faces one count each of murder, robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.
INDIANAPOLIS — A 60-year-old man with a long criminal history was charged Thursday with murder in the fatal shooting of an Indianapolis police officer whose handgun, prosecutors said, was still in its holster when he was gunned down in a driveway.
Wednesday, three days after he was shot four times — twice in the head — during a Sunday traffic stop. The 29-year-old officer's death was the city's first fatal police shooting in seven years.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry praised police investigators for "swiftly and efficiently" investigating the shooting, which had left the 29-year-old Moore in a coma until he was declared brain-dead Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Curry spoke to reporters at police headquarters hours after Indianapolis police officers escorted Moore's body to a city morgue. Moore had remained on life support Wednesday until an organ procurement team arrived to fulfill Moore's wish of donating his organs
in the event of his death.
in the event of its death. Curry said investigators have recovered the murder weapon at the home of an acquaintance of Hardy's and that ballistics testing tied it to seven shell casings from the crime scene.
the crime scene.
When Moore pulled over Hardy's car, he knew the vehicle had been reported stolen in December, according to a probably cause affidavit.
davit. The affidavit also states that Hardy recounted the traffic stop to a female acquaintance, telling her that he "knew he could go back to prison" if the officer found his gun. The woman said Hardy told her he put a round in the chamber and took the gun off safety.
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