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Speaker 1: Yeah, him are the suspect and the fatal shooting of

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Speaker 1: Beachgrove police officer Brian Elliott formally.

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Speaker 2: Charged with murder. It's about time. I don't even want

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Speaker 2: to say his name. He's forty seven years old and

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Speaker 2: it's a long list.

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Speaker 3: For thirty years, this guy has been a habitual pain

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Speaker 3: in the backside to law enforcement. Not all in Indy,

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Speaker 3: as a matter of fact, very rarely in Indy. This

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Speaker 3: is a guy from another city. But today these are

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Speaker 3: the charges being hit with the alleged cop killer from

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Speaker 3: Beech Grove. Murder, attempted murder, criminal confinement while armed with

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Speaker 3: a deadly weapon, domestic battery by means of a deadly weapon,

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Speaker 3: battery by means of a deadly weapon, and pointing a

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Speaker 3: firearm at another. These are all the charges this scumbag

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Speaker 3: is facing for the death of Officer Ryan Elliott and

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Speaker 3: Beach Growth.

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Speaker 2: And the big question is the death penalty on the table.

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Speaker 4: So it's early in the process.

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Speaker 2: I understand that, and I think.

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Speaker 3: I believe the prosecutor Ryan Mears, talked a little bit

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Speaker 3: about this today because at first he was just talking

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Speaker 3: about life in prison without parole. But it's my understanding

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Speaker 3: this is a procedural thing just to kind of lock

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Speaker 3: that in place, and they have not had a chance

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Speaker 3: to speak with the family of Officer Elliott just yet.

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Speaker 4: That's what I took from this. Take a listen, and.

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Speaker 5: We were in a position to file murder charges today.

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Speaker 5: In addition to the murder charge, we filed an attempt

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Speaker 5: murder charge and a couple of other additional charges as

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Speaker 5: it related to some of the other victims were involved

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Speaker 5: in this case. In addition to that, we filed life

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Speaker 5: without parole today, which means that if convicted and the

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Speaker 5: jury found that we had proved the aggravator beyond a

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Speaker 5: reasonable doubt, that there would be no possibility of parole.

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Speaker 5: It always in these types of cases, death penalty is

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Speaker 5: always a consideration. We go through a process in the

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Speaker 5: office that that's been in place for some time now,

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Speaker 5: where we have conversations with our law enforcement partners, we

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Speaker 5: have conversations with the family, We try to gather as

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Speaker 5: much information as possible about the defendant, and we will

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Speaker 5: begin that process.

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Speaker 3: So what I took from that was they have not

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Speaker 3: had a chance yet to sit down with the family

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Speaker 3: of fallen officer Elliott. You know, they're still going through

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Speaker 3: the grieving process here. Oh yeah, and they'll make that

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Speaker 3: decision a little bit later. Our Ryan Hedrick from the

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Speaker 3: WIBC newsroom, he was there, he was covering this announcement

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Speaker 3: from the prosecutor, and he followed up about the death penalty.

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Speaker 5: What circumstances go into a death penalty case, what would

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Speaker 5: have to happen for that to come together? Well, I

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Speaker 5: mean there's the legal aspect of it, is you know,

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Speaker 5: there are certain individuals who are not qualified based on

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Speaker 5: you know, is there an intellectual disability? Is there cognitive

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Speaker 5: shoes that would prevent the death penalty from being imposed?

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Speaker 5: I think the second part of that equation is you

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Speaker 5: have to have pragmatic conversations with people who are going

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Speaker 5: to be most directly impacted by what's going on with

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Speaker 5: the case. Unfortunately, we just had a situation in Beech

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Speaker 5: Grove where that was the last person to be executed

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Speaker 5: and that was thirty some years later, and so it's

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Speaker 5: very important that everybody understands exactly what it's required in

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Speaker 5: a death penalty case, and everybody's going to be committed

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Speaker 5: to see this thing through to the end, and you

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Speaker 5: just want to try to provide as much information to

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Speaker 5: the people who are going to be most directly impacted

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Speaker 5: by this as possible.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so two things.

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Speaker 3: Number One, should not have taken almost thirty years for

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Speaker 3: justice for the family of Officer William Tony, the previous

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Speaker 3: Beech Grove police officer that lost his life in the

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Speaker 3: line of duty, should not have taken thirty years. But

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Speaker 3: second of all, I get it, the family probably in

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Speaker 3: a very emotional state right now. They've got the showing,

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Speaker 3: the visitation, and the funeral coming up. The showing and

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Speaker 3: visitation is Sunday at Beechgrove High School from two to seven.

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Speaker 4: And then the funeral service will.

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Speaker 3: Begin at Beech Grove High School on Monday at eleven am.

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Speaker 3: So the family probably focused on that right now, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Nige sometime after that then they will sit

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Speaker 3: down with the Prosecutor's Office of nd and discuss whether

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Speaker 3: the death penalty is something they're interested in.

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Speaker 1: I would be I'm not going to speak in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form from the family of the fallen officer.

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Speaker 2: That is something that's up to them.

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Speaker 1: And you have made it clear plenty of times that

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Speaker 1: although you favor the death penalty in situations like this,

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Speaker 1: you defer to the victim's family.

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Speaker 3: If they are somebody that does not believe in capital punishment,

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Speaker 3: if that's something that goes against their beliefs, they get

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Speaker 3: to make that decision and whatever they want, it's the

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Speaker 3: right decision. Whatever they need for healing and justice, whatever

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Speaker 3: they want. But if they do choose to go down

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Speaker 3: the death penalty route, I do not want this to

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Speaker 3: turn out the way the briand Leith situation turned out,

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Speaker 3: where that family wanted the death penalty for somebody, in

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Speaker 3: my opinion, that knew exactly what they were doing. They

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Speaker 3: knew the difference between right and wrong. But yet you

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Speaker 3: bring in a bunch of egghead therapists, you have a

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Speaker 3: woke judge and next thing you know, the death penalties

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Speaker 3: taken off the table for somebody that shot through the

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Speaker 3: door and murdered a policewoman.

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Speaker 4: That's unacceptable to me.

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Speaker 3: And when I was ranting the other day, this was

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Speaker 3: my biggest concern. When you let Mary in County get

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Speaker 3: involved in these types of things, bad things can happen.

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Speaker 3: But I'm crossing my fingers and I'm hoping this family,

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Speaker 3: the family of Brian Elliott, gets justice