A Martinsville man has been arrested for a homicide on September 30. 46-year-old Delano Tomaz Ross also known as “Punkin” has been charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 47-year-old Antoine Preston.

On September 30 officers responded to a shots fired call in the 1400 block of Fayette Street at 11:43 pm. When officers arrived on scene they found a truck driven by Preston that had flipped over a guardrail and went down an embankment. 

Preston was dead from a gunshot wound when officers arrived. Ross has also been charged with use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, shoot from a vehicle to endanger persons, shooting into an occupied vehicle, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a violent convicted felon and reckless handling of a firearm. He is being held with no bond.