Craig Esmon Jacobs was shot and killed in Indianapolis on September 4, 2024. Police found the 40-year-old White man with gunshot wounds on the 30 block of North Gray Street near East Washington Street; emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators linked the homicide to a separate report of an armed person on the 2800 block of East Edgewood Avenue, about six miles south. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Aviation Unit and SWAT responded to that location and took 53-year-old James Grossnickle into custody without incident. Grossnickle was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder in connection with Jacobs’s death; the investigation was led by IMPD Lead Detective Noe Reyes.

If anyone saw activity on North Gray Street or the East Edgewood Avenue area around the time of the shooting, or has information that could help the investigation, please share what is known.