Dallas Jones was supposed to be headed from an Indianapolis inmate re-entry facility to Eskenazi Hospital.

Within three hours of leaving in an ambulance, though, Jones had somehow broken free of his GPS monitoring unit.

Jones, who still had time remaining on his federal sentence on a gun conviction, could not be found, federal court records say.

But within two months, his name would pop up again after Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective Dustin Keedy started receiving anonymous tips following a shootout.

On June 12, two houses and a vehicle were shot up near East 29th Street and North Keystone Avenue. Two women were struck by gunfire.

And one man, a local DJ named Albert Germany Jr., lay dying in the street.

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A lengthy affidavit filed in Marion Superior Court last week detailed the homicide investigator's evidence, including items collected from a massive crime scene and footage from an opportune surveillance camera.

But even as authorities zeroed in on their suspect, one big question remains: How did Dallas Jones escape from federal custody in the first place?

Crime scene spans almost a city block

Investigators first learned of the shooting around 6 p.m. June 12, when a woman flagged down Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Thomas Borgmann along North Sherman Avenue. She had been shot.

The woman, who is identified by only her initials in the affidavit, said she was inside her Dodge Charger in the 2900 block of North Dearborn Street when two men started shooting at each other near her.

The Charger was hit by more than a dozen rounds of gunfire, investigators say, and at least one bullet struck the woman in her shoulder.

She wasn't the only bystander injured in the shooting.

When IMPD officers drove to the crime scene, they learned of a 20-year-old woman who had been struck in her shoulder, too. A bullet pierced her home and hit her.

Bullets also struck another house, shattering a glass front door and piercing an internal wall of the home.

The worst outcome, though, came to 39-year-old Albert Germany Jr. Officers found him laying in the grass between the street and sidewalk. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Keedy, the homicide investigator, described the crime scene in court records as encompassing "almost the entire city block."

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Investigators collected a Ruger 9mm handgun and other items, but the most important evidence hung nearby.

A surveillance camera, Keedy wrote, "caught the entire incident along with other events of the day."

How the shooting started

The camera recorded, according to the affidavit, a scuffle that would precede the shooting by an hour. A man rode in on a dirt bike. He interacted with another man, later identified by IMPD as Dallas Jones.

A couple of minutes later, Jones pulled out a gun and set it on a nearby vehicle's trunk. He removed his necklace and tied his dreadlocks back into a ponytail. Then the two fought momentarily until the first man rode away on his dirt bike.

After about an hour, a group of people, including Jones, were standing in the area when a Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up. Police said Albert Germany Jr. left the Tahoe. Jones and Germany walked toward each other, meeting outside a parked Dodge Charger.

A man tried to separate them from fighting. Then Germany drew a handgun from his waistband, according to court records, and pointed it at Jones. Jones did the same. Then they started shooting at each other.

Germany ran across the street into a yard, police said, and stopped firing.

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Meanwhile, Jones removed a semi-automatic rifle from a Jeep Liberty parked nearby. He chased down Germany, shooting several times until Germany collapsed to the ground in the spot where officers would eventually find him.

Jones approached the body, Detective Keedy wrote. He stood over Germany's body. Then he fired again and again.

An autopsy found Germany was struck several times in the back, according to the affidavit, with one shot to his head.

Keedy didn't initially know who the alleged shooter was. But then he learned that a man named Dallas Jones was on the loose.

Escape from the hospital

Anonymous tips from the community led Keedy to the name Dallas, according to court records. Then another IMPD officer clued in Keedy to the name Dallas Jones and part of his criminal history, which included the use of a rifle on North Dearborn Street in 2014.

Keedy learned that federal agents were hunting for Jones, too. In November 2015, a federal judge slapped Jones with a four-year sentence followed by three years of probation after a firearms conviction, according to federal court records.

Near the end of Jones' sentence, in July 2018, he moved from a federal prison to a residential re-entry facility in Indianapolis operated by Volunteers of America called Brandon Hall.

On April 12, Jones told the facility's staff that he had blood in his urine, according to federal court records. An ambulance then drove him to Eskenazi Hospital around 11 p.m.

About three hours later, the staff realized that Jones' GPS monitoring unit had been removed. Eskenazi Hospital staff, meanwhile, said they did not know where he was.

It's unclear whether Jones made it to the hospital or how he evaded federal authorities.

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Nicole Knowlton, a Volunteers of America spokeswoman, declined to answer questions, instead sending a statement: "Brandon Hall includes a Federal Bureau of Prisons community residential reentry center that helps men and women rebuild their ties to the community in a structured and supervised environment. Regarding the incident on April 12, 2019, we received proper authorization and clearance from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and followed all program and administrative protocols and procedures."

When asked whether the US Marshals Service should have accompanied Jones to the hospital, Deputy Marshal Gabe Guerrero told IndyStar that they would have no way of knowing about the incident.

"We're not notified until someone is officially put in escape status," Guerrero said. That notification comes from the Bureau of Prisons, Guerrero said.

Questions sent by IndyStar to the Bureau of Prisons were not answered. Instead, an unidentified spokesperson emailed a brief statement saying the incident is under investigation.

The spokesperson did not respond to a question seeking clarification whether specifically the circumstances of the escape were under investigation.

A spokesman for Eskenazi Hospital, meanwhile, said federal privacy laws prevented him from speaking too much about any patient's visit to the hospital.

But he noted that someone from a re-entry facility generally wouldn't face the same kind of security at the hospital as someone who, for example, is under arrest by IMPD.

"Honestly there are lots of individuals that are party of a re-entry program that maybe have a (GPS) bracelet," said Todd Harper, an Eskenazi Hospital spokesman. "If he was part of a re-entry program, and he came in by an ambulance, we probably just treated him."

Jones became a federal fugitive when he ran away. The US Marshals started hunting for him.

An agent spots a familiar vehicle

Two days after the shooting, Detective Keedy heard from an agent about a familiar vehicle that was spotted at an east-side home. They had found the Jeep Liberty that had once held Jones' semi-automatic rifle.

And the owner of the vehicle identified in state records matched the description of someone who had been seen with Jones in recent weeks, Keedy wrote in court documents.

Agents searched the home and a Ford Escape parked outside. Inside the vehicle they found Jones, two other men and a semi-automatic rifle. Officers found another semi-automatic rifle and a handgun in the home.

In addition to three witnesses, detectives questioned Jones.

Jones admitted to investigators about the gun fight with Germany, according to Keedy's affidavit. But he didn't know the man's name.

The fight stemmed, Jones told police, from a sexual relationship between Jones and the girlfriend of another man. That apparently was the same man who fought momentarily with Jones before riding away on a dirt bike.

When Germany pulled up an hour later, according to Jones' statement, Germany asked, "Where's the guy he was fighting?"

Then the fight and shootout happened.

IndyStar left a message with Jones' court-appointed attorney seeking an interview, but the call was not returned.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry's office filed a murder charge against Jones last week.

In addition to the state charges, Jones faces the additional federal charge of escape, which carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison.

State and federal court records, however, do not provide any answers as to how Jones managed to escape federal custody in the first place.

Jones remains in Marion County Jail. A jury trial is set for August in Marion Super Court.

A jokester, life of the party

Germany leaves behind two sons, who are both 16.

A few days after the shooting, his loved ones gathered to release white and blue balloons into the air in tribute to the man his family called Meatie (and his friends called DJ Sauce).

Then when it came time for his services, they elected to celebrate his life by remembering the good times.

Like how he made everyone laugh by cracking jokes.

"Meatie was a jokester," said Brittany Germany, a cousin. "The life of the party."

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