INDIANAPOLIS — A man shot and killed a family of four and a neighbor in a drug deal that went sour in a sleepy hamlet in rural Indiana, state police said in court documents.
According to a probable cause affidavit, police said David E. Ison became angry when Roy Napier came up short on an order of the painkiller oxycodone and said he was raising the price.
Ison was charged with five counts of murder in the Sept. 25 deaths of Napier, 50, his estranged wife, Angela, 47, and their children, Melissa Napier, 23, and Jacob Napier, 18, at a mobile home near Laurel, about 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis. A family friend, Henry Smith, 43, was found dead on a nearby property.
Ison has yet to appear in court and is being held on a $5 million bond on an unrelated attempted robbery charge.
According to the affidavit, Ison's girlfriend said Napier told Ison that he would have 50 pills but had only 30. Ison later told her that two of the men had been armed and tried to rob him, and that he shot them in self-defense.
She told police that she waited in the car while Ison went into the Napier home to collect the drugs he had ordered. She said they heard gunshots when they arrived at the property and that she heard "six or seven gunshots" after Ison went inside the mobile home.
At about that time, a man walked down the hill to the home and nodded at her as he passed the car, she said. A moment later, the man came running back with Ison in pursuit. She said she saw the two men run behind a building and that a few moments later Ison returned to the car. She told police that Ison said the man thought he "was a punk and swung on him," and Ison "showed him that he was not a punk," according to the affidavit.
Police later found the body of neighbor Henry Smith on property nearby, shot in the chest.
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