Suspect Wanted In Indianapolis Carjacking, Robbery: IMPD

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said officers were dispatched at 9:50 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 to the 1200 block of Indiana Avenue for a robbery. Police said as they were arriving to the scene while driving south on Montcalm street and passing 14th street, they saw a white male sitting on the east side walk of Montcalm Street. Police said the man was later identified as Alexander Butler, who had a large bump on the left side of his forehead and small cuts on his left hand, leading officers to call for a medic to check him out.

According to IMPD, Butler told officers he was walking south on the east side of Montcalm after parking his car in a small lot on the southwest corner of 14th and Montcalm, when he heard the keys and foot steps of a person quickly approaching behind him. That's when, according to Butler, he was hit from behind and only remembered being hit in the head, in addition to the suspect demanding "everything he had," IMPD said.

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Police said Butler told them he gave the suspect his iPhone, wallet, and keys to his gray Honda Civic (license plate 714TJR), which Butler said the suspect immediately ran to and entered.

According to IMPD, Butler said the vehicle was last seen driving north onto Indiana Avenue from 14th street, and the suspect was described as a black male, approximately six-foot-tall, in his late 20s,with short hair, a stud earring in his left ear, wearing a black hoodie, dark jeans, and no shoes as he left them on the sidewalk where he attacked Butler.

Police said Butler called them later that night, telling them he had seen three separate credit card transactions at the Liquor Cabinet in the 3030 block of W. 16th Street at 10:37 p.m. Police added that the victim's car was recovered the next morning, Dec. 20 at 9:02 a.m. in the 1100 block of W. 15th Street with the engine still running.

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