Shooting suspect coerced escape
JAMIE DUFFY | The Journal Gazette
After fatally shooting a man in a room at Hawthorne Suites, Joseph Rose banged on the door of someone he knew at the Lima Road hotel.
He then pulled a gun, ordering that man to help him escape as police arrived, documents filed Wednesday in Allen Superior Court said.
Less than 12 hours later, Rose was arrested. Police said they found him about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday lying in a getaway car parked in the 5700 block of Falls Drive near the Village of Coventry.
Rose, 28, described as homeless, was charged Wednesday with murder, accused of killing Myquel Lmann Middlebrook, 22. Rose was being held without bail at the Allen County Jail.