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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana man has been sentenced to 105
years in prison for the 2022 fatal shooting of a Dutch soldier
and wounding of two others in downtown Indianapolis.
A Marion County judge on Monday ordered Shamar Duncan to serve
60 years for murder, 35 years for attempted murder and 10 years
for aggravated battery. The sentences are to be served
consecutively.
A jury convicted Duncan last month.
Simmie Poetsema, 26, and the other two soldiers had been
training at a southern Indiana military camp. The soldiers were
walking back to their hotel during a night off in Indianapolis
when they clashed with Duncan and a group of his friends,
according to court documents.
Witnesses told police that the soldiers tried to defuse the
situation but that a brief fight broke out before the gunshots
were fired from a passing pickup truck.
Poetsema was a member of the Dutch Commando Corps.
Duncan told one of his friends that he opened fire on the
soldiers because he “just spazzed, " according to an arrest
affidavit.
Duncan apologized during the sentencing to the families of the
victims. Duncan also told his family he was sorry for “letting
them down,” according to WXIN-TV.
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