INDIANAPOLIS -- A teenager was arrested after a fatal shooting on the northwest side of Indianapolis last month.

According to officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, a 17-year-old was taken into custody on Monday after he was identified as the suspect in the fatal shooting in the 5200 block of Austral Drive on Sept. 30. IMPD did not identify the suspect by name.

IMPD officers responded to the 5200 block of Austral Drive on the afternoon of Sept. 30 following an incomplete 911 call. According to previous reports, officers found an adult man, later identified as 38-year-old William Deaton II, with a reported gunshot wound. Deaton was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to an update from IMPD, officers were told at the time by witnesses that the suspect reported

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