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In the early morning hours of August 12, 2011, in Indianapolis, a dispute over the volume of a stereo escalated into a tragic and fatal encounter for Mary Swift, a 37-year-old woman. The argument was with Edward Lay, a man she had been dating for a short time. The verbal altercation took a violent turn when Lay produced a handgun and shot Swift multiple times.

The violence did not end with Swift's shooting. As two other individuals, Kelly Jinks, 33, and Ronald Kortz II, 40, attempted to i ...Read More
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Victim Details

Mary Swift

Male

White / Caucasian

Indianapolis

IN

2011-08-12

37

Mary

Swift

12/16/2025