EVANSVILLE — The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Workplace launched the identify of a person who was shot and killed Tuesday as he and two others allegedly tried to burglarize an Evansville residence.
In a information launch printed Wednesday morning, the coroner’s workplace publicly recognized the person as 22-year-old Mekhi Anthony Maxwell, of Evansville, who was pronounced lifeless on the scene of the taking pictures within the 3000 block of Sweetser Avenue.
Chief Deputy Coroner Amy Miller mentioned an post-mortem could be carried out Thursday.
Maxwell is alleged to have entered the Sweetser Avenue residence with two different males Tuesday afternoon, sparking a lethal confrontation with one of many residence’s residents, in response to Evansville Police Division spokesman Sgt. Anthony Aussieker.
Evansville police have been first alerted to the incident, which Aussieker described as a “housebreaking in progress,” by the home-owner simply after 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
“The caller acknowledged three topics broke into their residence and their son shot one among them,” Aussieker wrote in a information launch. “The caller didn’t consider the one that had been shot was alive. The 2 remaining topics fled the scene.”
Aussieker mentioned the one that fired the photographs has cooperated with investigators and consented to a police interview. The authorities haven’t launched their identify.
“Throughout the interview, the resident defined that they have been inside the house after they heard a loud noise,” Aussieker wrote within the launch. “After they seemed to see what the noise was, they noticed three armed topics forcing their means into the house. All three topics have been described as black males, carrying all-black face masks and gloves.”
Aussieker mentioned the resident used “their very own handgun” to fireside towards the three males, “hanging at the very least one as the opposite two fled the house.”
An Evansville Police Division officer retrieves an aerial drone whereas investigating a deadly taking pictures within the 3000 block of Sweetser Avenue Tuesday, Could 13, 2025.
The taking pictures and subsequent investigation elicited a big legislation enforcement presence alongside Sweetser Avenue and Vann Avenue Tuesday afternoon and compelled a number of close by faculties to enter a “safe mode,” in response to Evansville-Vanderburgh Faculty Corp. spokesman Jason Woebkenberg.
The incident continues to be beneath investigation, and the 2 suspects who have been reported to have fled the scene had not been apprehended as of Wednesday morning, although Aussieker mentioned there “doesn’t seem like a menace to most people.”
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This text initially appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Evansville police present Sweetser Avenue taking pictures replace