Floyd E. Carr v. State

RUCKER, Justice.

On the evening of September 1, 1999, Otis Elmore, Joann Jones, Daniel Valdez, and others were sitting outside Elmore’s East Chicago, Indiana apartment drinking beer. As Floyd Carr walked past the boisterous group, Jones made a snide remark to him. Carr told them to leave him alone and continued on his way. Carr returned a few minutes later with a gun and confronted Elmore. As Valdez grabbed Elmore’s shoulder to turn him away, Carr fired one shot, striking Elmore in the upper left back. A later autopsy-revealed that Elmore died as a result of a single gunshot wound to the chest…