Walter Steven Carpenter was 40 when he was shot in his Marion, Indiana apartment on March 25, 2023. Police were called shortly before 3 a.m. to a unit in the 1000 block of West 5th Street after reports of a shooting. Officers found Carpenter on the kitchen floor with a single gunshot wound to his upper body. He was treated at the scene, taken to a local hospital and later transferred to Fort Wayne, where he died a few hours later.

Investigators say the shooting appears to have been linked to a robbery. The Marion Police Department arrested a 16-year-old male believed to have been at the apartment with intent to rob Carpenter; the juvenile is in custody at a facility outside Grant County and the department’s Criminal Investigation Division is handling the case.

If anyone has information about the incident or knew Carpenter, please share what you know with the Marion Police Department.