Report: Shooting victim, gunman were cousins, had been feuding
MUNCIE, Ind. — Three people were arrested — one on a preliminary count of murder — after a Muncie man was fatally shot on Sunday afternoon.
City police said Timothy Lee Hahn, 52, was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, in the 1500 block of South Rochester Avenue.
The shooting was reported about 3:40 p.m.
A witness told investigators Hahn and his accused killer, 54-year-old Kenneth Ray Burden of Muncie, had arrived at an address along Rochester Avenue a few minutes apart.
Hahn shoved Burden off of a porch, the witness said, and a short time later, Burden was seen in the yard, pointing a handgun at Hahn.
After a gunshot was fired — with the bullet striking Hahn in the chest — Burden fled on foot.
Emergency personnel found the mortally wounded Hahn outside, on the ground. Efforts were made to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead after being placed in an ambulance.
Another witness said Hahn and Burden were cousins, and had been angry at one another in recent weeks.
Burden was arrested Sunday evening on the preliminary murder charge, according to Melissa Pease, deputy chief of the Muncie Police Department. Investigators had learned he was in a house in the 100 block of South Biltmore Avenue.
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Burden was being held without bond after being booked into the Delaware County jail at 2:54 a.m. Monday.
Also arrested, on preliminarily counts of assisting a criminal, were Muncie residents Angela Kay Doughty, 55, and her 36-year-old son, Jeremy Duane McKee.
McKee told police he, his mother and Burden had gone to his grandmother's home — near the house where the fatal shooting would take place — on Sunday afternoon.
While Doughty was in her mother's house feeding a pet, Burden reportedly went to an acquaintance's nearby home where he would encounter Hahn.
When he returned to their vehicle, McKee said, Burden reportedly said he had "just shot" Hahn.
When arrested, McKee had a .25-caliber handgun and a container holding three grams of crack cocaine,
McKee said the gun belonged to his mother, and on Sunday evening she had asked him to "get rid" of the weapon. He maintained he did not know if that was the firearm used to kill Hahn.
Doughty said her gun had been in her purse when she left her vehicle to go into her mother's home.
When Burden returned to the vehicle, Doughty told police, he said, "I think I killed him."
Doughty's bond was set at $5,000.
McKee, also preliminarily charged with carrying a handgun without a license and possession of cocaine, was being held under a $13,000 bond.
In the immediate wake of the shooting, officers were looking for a suspect in the area, at times following tracks in the snow. Most of Rochester Avenue between Eighth and Ninth streets was marked off with crime-scene tape.
Witnesses were also taken to City Hall for interviews.
Burden's criminal record includes at least four convictions for burglary and one for armed robbery, He was most recently released from prison in 2019, according to a state Department of Correction website.
Pease said the investigation of Sunday's homicide was ongoing, and asked anyone with information to call the Muncie Police Department's detective divison at 765-747-4867 or city police dispatchers at 765-747-4838.
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Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Muncie Star Press: City police arrest three in wake of Muncie man's Sunday slaying
