IMPD Investigators held a press conference Friday morning to announce an arrest in the death of a 15-year-old Ben Davis High School student.
Dominique Allen was abducted in the early morning hours on Aug. 31 while she was sitting outside her sister’s home. She was then found strangled, her body burned.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced the filing of a murder charge against William Gholston.
A DNA match broke the case open, Curry said, when Gholston’s DNA was matched to evidence from Allen’s sandal, foot and hand.
Curry said it didn’t appear Gholston and Allen knew each other. Gholston was not a person of interest in Allen’s murder until the DNA match, Curry said.
Gholston was arrested on a minor parole violation earlier this month in Bluffton, Ind. He was then brought to the Marion County Jail on the unrelated matter. He had been released from prison in May after serving eight years of a 16-year sentence.
Gholston was arrested in a 2002 murder case, but was later acquitted.
Lead Detective Marcus Kennedy said Allen’s family and the Indianapolis community kept the case alive.
