On July 17th at approximately 8 p.m. officers were dispatched to 302 E. Louisiana in reference to shots fired. On scene officers found 37-year-old Joshua A. Seymour deceased.
The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office later confirmed that Seymour’s cause of death was a shotgun wound to the chest.
The investigation led detectives to obtain a warrant for murder for 54-year-old Martin K. Miniard. Miniard was located in New Harmony on July 19th
. Multiple agencies worked together and Miniard was taken into custody, and booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center, just after midnight on July 20th
.The Evansville Police Department would like to thank the many agencies that assisted us with the quick capture of Miniard. We greatly appreciate the assistance of the U.S. Marshall Service, the Posey County Sheriff’s Dep
