Shooting suspect dead after walking out of court during jury deliberation, causing SWAT standoff at Indy apartments

INDIANAPOLIS — A lengthy standoff involving Indy police and SWAT crews at a local apartment complex concluded Wednesday night after the suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Large amounts of police responded early this afternoon to the Blackburn Terrace apartments near the intersection of 30th Street and Baltimore Avenue on Indy’s near northeast side to detain a shooting suspect who had reportedly walked out of court earlier in the day. SWAT was later called to the scene.

Crews were reportedly looking for 36-year-old Lamon Moore, a suspect facing a Level 4 Felony gun charge who was on trial this week in Marion County Court. The court proceedings were an out-of-custody jury trial, meaning Moore was not handcuffed and was not in custody.

Moore was apparently left unattended inside the Criminal Justice Center while the jury went in for deliberation and soon walked out of the building and into a car that was waiting for him outside.

The Marion County warrant unit was immediately notified that Moore had left the building and put out a warrant for his arrest. Investigators soon learned Moore had likely been taken to the Blackburn Terrace apartments.

IMPD and Marion County Sheriff’s Office crews got to the apartments around 1 p.m. and talked to a woman who identified herself as the leaseholder of the unit they were investigating. After being pressed by investigators, the woman admitted Moore was inside the apartment.

Police said officers soon made brief contact with Moore near the back of the apartment, but that he had not communicated with anyone since. Negotiators reportedly had made attempts to talk with Moore, but he did not answer the phone or PA announcements from police.

FOX59/CBS4 had a crew on scene at the apartments who, around 6:30 p.m., heard five loud booms and a flashbang go off. Heavily armed, heavily armored SWAT team members are on scene.

Around 7:30 p.m., MCSO officials said they believed Moore was still inside the apartment and still alive. They said that crews were looking to have a peaceful resolution to the standoff.

MCSO confirmed in an update shortly before 10 p.m. that Moore had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after deputies forced entry into the barricaded apartment.

Deputies immediately provided life-saving aid before he was brought to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition where he later died. A death investigation will be carried out by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Photos from the scene, taken by reporter Russ McQuaid, can be seen below:

Our crews have spoken with several neighbors and families who live at the apartment complex and have not been allowed to return to their homes. The area is currently sectioned off by police tape.

FOX59/CBS4 has previously covered a 2023 liquor store shooting in which a Lamon Moore with the same date of birth was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a gun by a serious violent felon. This is the same charge that MCSO said the Lamon Moore they are after faces.

According to court documents, Moore shot a person in late 2023 at a liquor store located in the area of E. 30th Street and N. Sherman Drive. Moore was later arrested at a truck stop in Whitestown. For more information on that case, click here.

FOX59/CBS4 is now working to determine what the verdict was in Moore’s case today. This article will be updated with more details as they become available.