Adult Charged In Gun Shop Theft Proclaims Innocence

INDIANAPOLIS -- The only adult of four people accused of burglarizing an Indianapolis gun shop on Friday claimed in a jailhouse interview Monday that he wasn't involved in the incident.

Nicholas Martin, 20, was charged with burglary, theft and carrying a handgun without a license.

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Police said Martin and three juveniles used a stolen car to break through the side of Don's Guns and Galleries, in the 3800 block of Lafayette Road.

Officers said a fingerprint linked Martin to the scene. Authorities said the cases at the gun shop are cleaned every night, but Martin insisted his print was there from the day before, when he shopped with his sister.

"I went with her for assistance. That's it. She bought her gun, purchased it. We left," Martin said. "I admitted to being there and I turned myself in. What person in their right state of mind would [expletive] do that if they're dirty?"

The mother of a 15-year-old suspect told 6News last weekend that her son and the 14-year-old twins also accused weren't thinking straight. One of the juveniles was apprehended and at least one gun was recovered after a police chase Friday, 6News' Tanya Spencer reported.

"My son and the younger ones were under the influence. Someone had gave them drugs right before this," said "Leslie," a mother of one of the teens. "They mainly were thinking of … the thrill of doing it. I don't think they thought past that point."

Martin insisted that he doesn't know the teens and called the experience frustrating, concerned it will cost him his job.

"You all are really trying to put it like I … did something wrong when I know for a fact I ain't did [expletive]," Martin said. "For them to sit up in here and laugh at me and keep trying to point at me and hold me down when I'm [expletive] innocent."

Martin was scheduled for an initial court appearance on Tuesday morning. The juveniles had detention hearings on Monday and were scheduled for initial court appearances on Friday.