Murder Suspect Arrested Two Weeks After Poker Player Found Dead in Home

An arrest has been made for the demise of poker participant James “Matt” Lushin, who was discovered lifeless in his Indiana dwelling two weeks in the past.

Lushin, 47, a beloved member of the Indianapolis poker neighborhood recognized for his humorousness, handed away on March 12. Police initially dominated the demise “suspicious” earlier than later classifying it as a murder.

In keeping with a press launch from the Westfield Police Division, Ronald Dewayne Brown Jr. was arrested on March 27 and charged with homicide. He is presently booked within the Hamilton County Jail with out bond and has but to look in courtroom.

Lushin, who cashed in a World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) occasion simply two weeks earlier than he handed away, had over $500,000 in The Hendon Mob dwell event cashes. He was an everyday in native card rooms and tournaments, and even traveled the world final 12 months to play poker, incomes WSOPC and PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) cashes within the Netherlands and Spain. However he was additionally a profitable actual property investor, his important supply of revenue.

Late Poker Participant’s Good friend Crushes Excessive Rollers in His Honor

Lushin’s shut buddy, Ben Grise, performed some PGT excessive rollers with a heavy coronary heart earlier this month in Las Vegas. He’d already reached one last desk in a $10,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em event, a second-place end for $136,500, earlier than getting the tragic information.

Grise returned to the PokerGO Studio the next day having to struggle again his feelings and nonetheless managed to get heads-up in consecutive days. He completed in second place once more for $136,500 in one other $10k.

Family and friends paid respect to the late poker participant at a Mass of Christian Burial on March 20 on the Arc Catholic Church in Kokomo Indiana. Grise was quoted in an obituary memorializing his buddy.

“You at all times knew you would hang around with him, and he’d put a smile in your face,” Grise stated of Lushin.

Lushin, because the obituary reads, was generally known as an “excellent father” to his son, Leighton. He “exceeded in fatherhood and strived to be a mannequin mother or father.”

Police haven’t launched additional particulars in regards to the suspect, together with his connection to the sufferer.

*Characteristic picture courtesy of Hamilton County Jail.