By rssfeeds-admin Court records detail the unusual circumstances leading up to the arrest.
According to a preliminary affidavit, police were first called to the scene by the suspect’s son who said he called to check on his father who reportedly admitted he killed a woman Saturday night.
Police were called just after 11 a.m. Sunday to the Serenity Manor senior living complex near 10th and Shadeland.
Officers quickly found a woman shot to death on the couch of an apartment.
Darrien Curry, 60, told police he killed the woman the night before and went to sleep, while the victim laid dead overnight.
According to the affidavit, Curry confessed the victim wasn’t armed and she didn’t assault him. She simply had gotten drunk and wouldn’t leave his apartment when he asked and that’s why he shot her.
“Traditionally, people who know they’ve done something wrong flee from law enforcement, hide the body, dispose of the weapon or make up an alibi. If those are all absent, it’s an indicator the person doesn’t think they did anything wrong because they’re not trying to hide it or run from it,” said attorney John Tompkins.
Tompkins isn’t connected to the case, but said the suspect’s unusual actions could lead to a defense about his mental health at trial, including if he has a mental disease or defect that prevented him from recognizing right from wrong.
“So if a person doesn’t realize the wrongfulness of their act, they can’t be punished for that act,” said Tompkins. “Are his actions consistent with knowing he did something wrong and trying to conceal it or inconsistent like he didn’t realize, ‘Oh that was wrong.'”
The suspect’s son told police his dad has mental and physical health issues, including having suffered a stroke.
After being taken into custody, police claim Curry admitted the gun he used was still in the apartment and that it had been stolen a year or so earlier.
Curry also reportedly admitted he never tried to call police to get the victim to leave his home before the shooting.
The suspect is now being held without bond pending the filing of formal charges.
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