INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has arrested 52-year-old Brandon Lewis for his alleged involvement in a fatal stabbing that took the life of an adult female on the west side of Indianapolis Monday evening.
According to IMPD, officers were dispatched to the 500 block of N Alton Avenue just before 10 p.m. on a report of a person down. Officers arrived at the scene and found a female victim unresponsive with injuries consistent with trauma and stab wounds to her body. Medics arrived and pronounced the victim deceased at the scene.
The Marion County Coroner's Office has identified the victim as 69-year-old Dawn E. Adams.
Detectives located Lewis and detained him at the scene.
Shortly after arriving on the scene, detectives learned that Lewis and the victim knew one another and had both been involved in an altercation, leading to Lewis taking the victim’s life.
This case is now in the hands of the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, which will make the final charging decision.
