LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Metro Police's Homicide Unit have arrested a man in relation to a fatal July shooting in Jacobs neighborhood.
LMPD said 23-year-old Davon Jemel Johnson was charged with complicity to murder and complicity to robbery. Officers say Johnson was taken into custody Friday afternoon without incident on a warrant.
Police say they responded to a call of a shooting on the afternoon of July 11 in the 3600 block of Georgetown Place near Berry Boulevard.
When officers arrived they say they found a man who had been shot.
Police say the man, identified as 27-year-old Rykess D. Ford, was transported to UofL Hospital in critical condition.
An LMPD spokesperson said two days later, Ford died in hospital due to his injuries.
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