Man arrested for fatal Thursday night shooting

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was called to a report of a person shot shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday to 9950 E. 38th St. That's the address for a Marathon Gas station at Mitthoeffer Road. (WISH Photo/Kyle Fisher)

UPDATE: The man shot and killed outside a gas station on June 9 has been identified as 32-year-old Desmond Banks, according to the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Banks died from multiple gunshot wounds.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis police arrested a man for a Thursday night shooting that killed a man on the city’s east side.

Darius Butts, 41, was arrested for murder at the scene of the shooting, a gas station at 9950 E. 38th St., according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Officers were called to the gas station just before 11 p.m. and found a large crowd of people and a man who had died after being shot.

The Marion County Coroner’s Office is expected to identify the person who died and determine the cause of death.

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