Family seeks answers in teen's shooting death - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

The family of a teenager who died after a Sunday shooting are looking for answers as police continue their search for the suspect.

In the past 24 hours, neighbors have left stuffed animals and cards in the alley where Jarrell Tucker was shot. According to court documents, the suspect in Tucker's shooting, 56-year-old Glenn Beard, should not have even had a gun.

"Please, if anyone knows where this man is, turn him in so I can have justice for my baby. He's 13 years old," cried Tucker's mother, Dayna.

Dayna Tucker wants Beard in handcuffs and charged with her son's murder. Meanwhile, Tucker must start planning her child's funeral.

"He's supposed to start school today and he can't because he's dead," Dayna Tucker cried.

Eyewitness News has learned Beard should not have even had a gun Sunday night. He was released from prison last September, after serving less than half of a six-year sentence for carrying a gun he wasn't supposed to have, because he was already a convicted serious violent felon.

"We're going to talk to him again and, quite frankly, we'll find him and we'll have a conversation," said IMPD Police Chief Rick Hite.

Investigators questioned Beard Sunday night after the shooting, but let him go because Beard claimed self defense. Neighbors said right before the shooting they saw Beard get into a fight with Jarrell Tucker as he walked by Beard's front porch.

"I heard gunshots. I immediately see the guy jump in the truck," neighbor Joseph Galliher said of Beard.

Galliher found Tucker bleeding in the alley next to Beard's home.

"I went and picked him up, but everybody was like don't, don't touch him, he's gone," remembered Galliher, crying.

"He didn't deserve it. He was a good kid," said neighbor Ravensimone Reeves.

Reeves said Sunday's shooting may have started the night before, when she and the victim walked by Beard's house and asked to borrow a lighter.

"He pulled a shotgun out," said Reeves.

Monday afternoon, police and members of the Ten Point Coalition walked up and down the neighborhood.

"You gotta be good to each other, because it's about the future. Y'all represent our future alright?" Chief Hite told the group of young people, many of them Tucker's friends, who had gathered.

Police and the coalition were there to quell any tension, because the suspect is an older white male and the shooting victim is a young black teen.

"For a situation like this, there is always the possibility of retaliation," said Pastor Horatio Luster with the Ten Point Coalition.