Malcolm E. Perdue, Kyndra K. Swift and Kyler Musick
Devin Xavier Myers and Daniel Lamar Jones
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Prosecutor: Death penalty 'on the table' in Muncie triple homicide
By Douglas Walker
Muncie Star Press
MUNCIE, Ind. — Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman is contemplating whether three slayings in Muncie on Wednesday warrant the pursuit of a death sentence for those responsible.
Muncie police said Malcolm E. Perdue, 69, and Kyndra K. Swift, 51, were fatally shot shortly before 5 a.m. Wednesday during a robbery at a home in the 2900 block of South Liberty Street.
Perdue's 19-year-old grandson, Kyler Ryan Musick, also was shot to death Wednesday, apparently at a different location. Investigators found his body Thursday night near Prairie Creek Reservoir.
Two Muncie men — Devin Xavier Myers and Daniel L. Jones, both 27 — were arrested on Wednesday. Both are charged with two preliminary counts of murder in the Liberty Street slayings.
Affidavits have suggested Myers was responsible for the shooting death of Musick, too.
Prosecutor Hoffman said Friday he expected formal charges in the case to be filed early next week.
"At the time it is premature to make a decision one way or the other on whether I intend to seek the death penalty," Hoffman said. "However, I can say it is certainly on the table."
Under Indiana law, a death sentence can be pursued in a murder case if at least one of 18 "special circumstances" exist.
Those circumstances include an "intentional murder" while committing, or trying to commit, crimes including burglary and robbery.
Another circumstance includes committing a murder after having committed another homicide "at any time regardless of whether convicted."
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