From the Muncie Star-Press of December 28, 2006
Police say shooting was self-defense
A Muncie teenager shot in a near-southside home last week was armed with two guns himself and committing a robbery when he was wounded, police believe.
Deandre Lamont Ledsinger, 18, 1322 E. Waid St., suffered multiple gunshot wounds inside 1206 E. Sixth St. in the afternoon hours of Dec. 20.
The 19-year-old man who shot Ledsinger was acting in self defense and will probably not face criminal charges, Muncie police Sgt. Jason Webber said Wednesday.
Police have arrested Ledsinger on a preliminary charge of armed robbery, a class B felony carrying a standard 10-year prison term. The Muncie man is being held under a police hold at Ball Memorial Hospital, where he is recovering.
Information on his medical condition was unavailable Wednesday.
A probable cause affidavit for Ledsinger's arrest, based mostly on interviews with the robbery victim, gives the following account of the shooting:
-- As the 19-year-old returned home and exited his vehicle, Ledsinger, armed with a .38-caliber and .357-caliber handguns, and another man with a pump shotgun approached him.
-- Ledsinger followed the 19-year-old into his house where the money was stored. The second man stayed outside.
-- The 19-year-old gave Ledsinger $1,000. Ledsinger responded that he knew the man had $3,000 and started checking a bedroom for the rest of the cash.
-- As Ledsinger was checking a closet, the 19-year-old pulled a gun and shot Ledsinger. The two exchanged gunshots before the 19-year-old ran out the side door to the alley and called his mother.
-- When police arrived they located Ledsinger in the 19-year-old's bedroom with $1,000 in his pocket bound by a single rubber band as described by the robbery victim.
Investigators have been unable to interview Ledsinger because of his condition.
BMH spokesman Neil Gifford said he could confirm Ledsinger was still in the hospital but at the request of family could not give the patient's medical condition.
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