Police: Threat on Snapchat preceded fatal shooting

MUNCIE, Ind. — A threatening message on Snapchat was apparently a factor in events that led to a Muncie woman's fatal shooting.

Joanie Elaine Webb, 43,, was shot to death in her home at 814 S. Monroe St. shortly after 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Bullets, fired from outside, struck both that house and a neighboring home at 818 S. Monroe Street, where another woman was also wounded by the gunfire.

Deputy Police Chief Melissa Criswell said neither woman had been an intended target "in this senseless act of violence."

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Early Tuesday, police arrested Darnzell Dantonio Drummer, a 19-year-old Muncie man preliminarily charged with murder, aggravated battery and criminal recklessness in the shootings.

According to an affidavit, a Muncie man — whose name was not released — had been at the home at 818 S. Monroe shortly before the gunfire.

A photo of that man, and his young daughter, was taken at that location and then posted on Snapchat, an instant messaging app, along with a threat to harm both the man and his child.

Drummer, related to the target of the threat, reportedly told police that posting prompted him to drive to the 800 block of South Monroe Street, He reported seeing a man "crouched down" outside 818 S. Monroe, and said he fired six gunshots in that person's direction.

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Police reported several bullets struck that house. One entered the house and a 37-year-old woman was struck in the torso.

That woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance, and police were investigating her shooting when a female reported she had been unable to reach her cousin — Webb — at her home at 814 S. Monroe.

Investigators saw Webb — later determined to have been shot in the head — "lying on the floor inside the residence." She was also taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

A bullet hole was also found in a wall of Webb's home.

Drummer continued to be held without bond Wednesday in the Delaware County jail.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.

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