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Jul 27, 2021 / 09:12 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday arrested a man involved in three Monday night robberies that happened on the south side.
According to IMPD, William Eland III was charged three counts of attempted robbery.
Police say the first robbery occurred at the BP gas station in the 4900 block of East Thompson Road just after midnight.
Shortly after 1:00 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 8000 block of South Emerson Avenue for a second robbery at the Speedway gas station.
Half an hour later, the third robbery was committed at a Shell gas station located in the 8900 block of South Emerson Avenue, according to police.
A document shared by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on Monday detailed this encounter.
According to the document, on March 2, 2020, Hole and his mother drove to the Gun Bunker, a gun shop on the east side of Indianapolis, to look at guns. His mother told police she didn t know her son had brought money to buy a gun. Hole ended up buying a .410 shotgun and didn t buy any shells.
When they got home, Hole was asked what he was going to do with the gun and the document says he became angry and struck his mother and told her to shut up.