3 killed in shootings during abduction, chase
By The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:33 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS - A man fatally shot his ex-wife and himself inside his car a short time after he killed the woman's boyfriend and abducted her and her 13-year-old daughter.
Carl Wills, 44, entered the home of his ex-wife, 30-year-old April Wills, in an apartment complex on the city's northwest side about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday and shot her 30-year-old boyfriend, John L Cunningham III, police said.
Police Sgt. Matthew Mount said the shooting woke up the woman's teenage daughter.
‘‘She came downstairs and found her mother being beaten up by her ex-husband. Her boyfriend was on the floor of the living room,'' Mount said.
Witnesses saw Wills, who was not the girl's father, beating April Wills in the parking lot before she broke away and got back inside. Carl Wills kicked open the door and forced his ex-wife and the girl at gunpoint into his car.
Neighbor Denisha Caster witnessed the woman's abduction.
‘‘She was just screaming, 'Please, don't shoot me! Don't shoot me!' and he just forced her into the car,'' Caster said.
Officers chased the car for several miles, including on Interstate 65, before stopping it in a neighborhood on the city's near north side. Mount said April Wills was shot inside the car soon after leaving the apartment complex and Carl Wills shot himself as officers stopped the car by causing it to spin.
Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The 13-year-old girl had a welt from being hit to the head, but was not otherwise wounded.
Police said Carl Wills spent seven years in prison on a 1992 conviction for reckless homicide. He also was involved in several domestic abuse reports, both with April Wills and another past girlfriend.
Two siblings of the teen had spent the night at a relative's home, Mount said.
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