Suspect, one other arrested in connection to Morgantown shooting

2:30 p.m. update

A man and a woman were arrested Monday morning after a person was shot Sunday evening on the 6700 block of South 800 West, Morgantown.

At around 8:55 p.m. Sunday, the Johnson County Communications Center received a call that a person, later identified as Jerry Jones, 38, of Morgantown, was shot.

Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived and located Jones, but found that the gunman had fled the scene. Deputies questioned witnesses and launched an investigation was led them to different locations around Central Indiana, said Duane Burgess, sheriff.

Jones received medical care from Trafalgar firefighters and Morgantown Emergency Services and was transported to IU Methodist Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, the release says.

Deputies first located Miranda D. Lawson, 19, of Morgantown, in a residence on Mahalasville Road in Morgan County. She was initially booked into jail just before 4 a.m. Monday on a charge of attempted murder but that charge was downgraded as new information was uncovered in the investigation, Burgess said. She will be charged with false informing, for providing police with incorrect information, he said.

Later Monday morning, deputies located Nicolas R. Saunders, 19, formerly of Morgantown, at his current home in Elizabethtown and served a warrant at the residence. He is initially charged with aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony, in Johnson County, but that charge could be upgraded as the investigation continues, Burgess said.

Because of Saunders’s actions when police were attempting to apprehend him, additional charges will likely be filed in Jennings County for resisting law enforcement and criminal mischief to a sheriff’s office vehicle, the release says. The criminal mischief charge stems from Saunders breaking the window of a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office vehicle, Burgess said.

The sheriff’s office is refraining from releasing booking photos initially because Jones is not in a position to confirm the identity of the gunman in his current condition, Burgess said.

The sheriff’s office was assisted by Morgantown and Trafalgar police, as well as the Morgan and Jennings County sheriff’s offices and the Johnson County SWAT Team.

Original story

A person was shot Sunday evening in the 6700 block of South 800 West in Morgantown.

At around 8:55 p.m. Sunday the Johnson County Communications Center received a call that a person shot. Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived and located the person who was shot, but not the person or people responsible for the shooting, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.

A male shooting victim was transported to IU Methodist Hospital. The last update the sheriff’s office had heard as of early Monday morning is that he was in surgery, the release says.

Johnson County Sheriff’s Office detectives are currently conducting interviews. They’ve determined the suspect or suspects fled the area and are attempting to obtain information on those involved in the incident, the release says.

The sheriff’s office, Trafalgar Fire Department and the Morgantown Emergency Services responded to the incident.