INDIANAPOLIS — A 20-year-old Indianapolis man is behind bars after an investigation by IMPD detectives found him responsible for the death of two men in a April 22 shooting on the city's east side.
Martice McGee faces two preliminary charges of murder for allegedly killing 26-year-old Jaquareous Mitchell and 29-year-old Jimmy Thomas inside the Shell Gas Station at 34th and Emerson.
Questioning during the investigation found McGee walked in and picked up two 2-liter bottles of Faygo and brought them to the register.
According to court documents, while at the register, McGee got into an altercation with two others.
During the argument, McGee asked one of the men to take their guns out to their car so they can fight and/or continue to argue. One of the victim's left the store with the guns and returned to the store.
According to the probable cause affidavit, McGee pulled a small pink and silver handgun out and shot both Mitchell and Thomas.
Mitchell died at the scene and Thomas died less than an hour later in a local hospital.
McGee then fled the convenience store — but left behind his Faygo bottles.
Paired with identifying images from the employees of the gas station, detectives had the two bottles of Faygo which were left behind scanned for finger prints.
Prints landed a match with a suspect in a January 2023 incident in Kalamzoo, Michigan.
Police apprehended McGee on April 25.
