Najee Givens of Indianapolis has been charged with murder in the July 17, 2022 death of Timothy Rucker. Givens was previously convicted of reckless homicide in the January 2016 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old. In that case, Givens entered a plea agreement.
Najee Givens, 33, is accused of killing Timothy Rucker, 25, who police found shot July 17 in the 5200 block of Padre Lane on Indianapolis' southeast side. He was charged Friday.
In 2018, Givens was convicted of reckless homicide as a level 5 felony in the January 2016 fatal shooting of Terry Williams, 19. It was Indianapolis' first confirmed homicide of that year. In that case, Givens entered a plea agreement in which a murder charge was dropped, court records show. As part of the agreement, Givens would have served four years at the Indiana Department of Correction with two years suspended. But he violated the terms of the agreement and was ordered to serve the entire sentence of six years at IDOC, according to Michael Leffler, a spokesman for the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.In November 2017, Givens was charged with battery resulting in bodily injury, a misdemeanor.
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