INDIANAPOLIS — A prosecutor said Tuesday the entire city can be relieved now that authorities have arrested and charged two men in connection with a bank robbery in which a teller was shot, causing her to lose the twins she was carrying.
“The entire community of Indianapolis ... is breathing a sigh of relief,” Helen Marchal, a Marion County deputy prosecutor, told reporters after a judge entered not guilty pleas for the two men during their initial court appearance.
Brian Kendrick, 29, who was arrested Friday, faces two counts of killing a fetus, attempted murder, robbery and carrying a handgun without a license. He could face up to 87 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
A second man police say helped Kendrick in the holdup, Aaron Stewart, 28, was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and could face up to 20 years.
Judge Heather Welch ordered both men held on $250,000 bond.
Katherin Shuffield, 30, was five months pregnant when she was shot in the abdomen during the April 22 robbery at a branch of Huntington Bank on the city’s east side. She lost the fetuses two days later.
Neither Shuffield nor her family have commented publicly since the arrests last week.
“I am assuming that they are very, very pleased that these two men have been charged and they’re going to be held accountable,” Marchal said.
Kendrick and Stewart appeared in court wearing orange jail jumpsuits and shackles on their wrists. Both told Welch they intended to hire attorneys.
Kendrick told the judge he suffered from depression. He said he went to school through the 10th grade, and Stewart said he went through the 11th grade.
A tip two weeks ago from an unidentified witness led authorities to Stewart, who authorities say identified Kendrick as the shooter.
Witnesses and employees told investigators that the man vaulted the teller’s counter, pointed a handgun at Shuffield’s abdomen and shot her, even though she was not resisting. The shooting also was recorded by bank surveillance cameras, according to a police report released Monday.
After the shooting, the robber grabbed money from two teller drawers, placed it in a duffel bag, fired one more shot into a chair and ran out the front door of the bank, the report said. He ran through a neighboring yard and into a getaway vehicle.
Stewart told investigators he was not in the bank but had agreed to follow Kendrick and watch out for him. He said he later saw Kendrick with a black backpack that contained money that apparently had been discolored from an exploded dye pack.
According to Stewart, Kendrick told him, “It’s all ruined. I did it for nothing,” the police report said.
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