Three Arrested after Police Investigate Shots Fired Incident

(L to R) Dalton Carmack, Donovyn Carmack, Kendric Emerson

Three people were arrested Friday, October 14 after officers from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department investigated an incident involving shots fired in the 19,000 block of 4B Road.

Police say the caller said a home in the area was struck multiple times by bullets that were being fired near the residence.  The caller also informed officers that one bullet struck the bedroom window where his children were sleeping and glass injured one child, according to the report.

Patrol units arrived in the area and located the subjects who were reportedly shooting in the 4,000 block of Thorn Road. An investigation found that the three subjects reportedly did not have a sufficient backstop to be shooting the semi-automatic rifles toward the victim’s residence.

Mishawaka residents Donovyn Carmack, 22, and Dalton Carmack, 25, and Plymouth resident Kendric Emerson, 32, were arrested and taken to the Marshall County Jail where each face a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness shooting a firearm into an inhabited structure as a Level 5 Felony.


Suspects are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.