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Men Arrested In Multiple Indy Slayings

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POSTED: 9:53 pm EDT May 9, 2008
UPDATED: 10:24 pm EDT May 9, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS -- Investigators probing three separate
2007 Indianapolis slayings arrested four men Friday,
including one man accused of being involved in all
three killings and another accused in two, police
said.

Samuel Fancher, 25, of Indianapolis, was arrested on
preliminary murder charges in connection with the
deaths of three people, including a 16-year-old boy.

Police said they believe Fancher and Jerry Emerson,
32, of Indianapolis, were involved in the July slaying
of Ryan Sampson, 16, and the September killing of
Cornelius Stamps.

Investigators also believe Fancher, Coy Daniels, 26,
and Lawayne Smith, 25, were involved in the November
killing of Arnold Fitzgerald.

Emerson, Daniels and Smith -- like Fancher -- were
arrested Friday on preliminary charges of murder,
Indianapolis police Sgt. Paul Thompson said. Fancher
and Daniels already were in the Monroe County Jail in
Bloomington on charges not related to the slayings.

Police said information from witnesses helped lead to
the arrests.

16-Year-Old Killed At Abandoned House

Sampson and another boy were found shot July 30 in an
abandoned house in the 2500 block of North Gale
Street, police said. The second boy survived.

Thompson said he didn't know what led to that
shooting.

Stamps Killed While Working On Vehicle

Police said Stamps, 28, and another man were working
on a vehicle in the 2900 block of North Euclid Avenue
when at least one male exited a white Chevrolet Lumina
and shot them on Sept. 20. The second man survived the
shooting, but Stamps was declared dead at a hospital.

A day later, police detained Emerson after seeing a
car matching the Lumina's description at a home in the
3900 block of Sherman Drive, Thompson said. Police
didn't arrest Emerson in connection with Stamps'
killing at that time, but investigators considered him
to be a person of interest in the case until his
arrest Friday, Thompson said.

Fitzgerald Killed On City's West Side

Police said Fitzgerald, 31, and another man were shot
in or near a house on the city's west side on the
afternoon of Nov. 15.

A witness told 6News that three people exited a black
SUV and shot Fitzgerald at close range outside the
house. Fitzgerald ran into the back yard and collapsed
before dying, the witness said in November, speaking
on condition of anonymity.

However, police said in November that they believed a
shooter or shooters entered the house and shot
Fitzgerald and the other man there. Fitzgerald's body
was found, police said, lying just inside a doorway in
the back of the house.

At the time, police said gambling might have spurred
an argument that led to the shootings. The second
wounded man survived.


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