Police: Murder suspect arrested on gun charge day before killing
MUNCIE, Ind. A day before he allegedly killed a local man with a shotgun, a Muncie man was arrested on a firearms-related charge.
Brandon C. Hodge, 28, of the 300 block of North Hodson Avenue, is charged with murder and two other crimes in last week s slaying of Robert Eugene Trey Scott III.
City police said the 33-year-old Scott was fatally shot about 4:40 a.m. on Feb. 28 in a backyard near the victim s home in the 2200 block of West Ninth Street.
Scott s former girlfriend Morgan L. Bell, 26 also is charged in the homicide.