Teen boy killed in Sunday shooting on Indianapolis' far east side, police say
Natalia E. ContrerasA 17-year-old boy was killed during a shooting Sunday afternoon on Indianapolis' far east side.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police detectives are ruling the incident in the 3800 block of North Franklin Road near 34th Street a homicide.
According to a news release, the boy and a friend were walking when a vehicle drove by just before 3 p.m. and someone got out of the vehicle and fired a weapon, striking the 17-year-old boy. The shooter then got back in the vehicle and left.
It's unclear if the person who fired the weapon was the driver of the vehicle.
When officers arrived they saw "an unresponsive male victim with a gunshot wound along the road," the news release states.
Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Homicide detectives also responded to the scene and began gathering information from witnesses.
The Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency helped identify and collect potential forensic evidence. The Marion County Coroner’s Office will assist in determining the exact cause and manner of death. The MCCO will release the victim's name once his next of kin has been notified, the news release states.
Other fatal shootings in Indianapolis
This is the fifth person killed in a shooting in Indianapolis this weekend.
Four other people were killed and two wounded overnight Saturday and early Sunday.
Indianapolis crime:4 killed, 2 wounded in 4 hours
The first shooting happened 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Bellefontaine Street where a man was found on the street with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
About two hours later, a shooting at an apartment complex in the 7100 block of Twin Oaks killed a man who was found on the sidewalk.
About 1:10 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a shooting at a bar in the 3600 block of Roosevelt Avenue. Two women, one who was pronounced dead at the scene and one man who died at a hospital, were shot inside the business.
The second woman found at the bar was hospitalized in serious condition.
Anyone with information about the shootings should call the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.
IndyStar reporter Natalia Contreras can be reached at 317-444-6187 or natalia.contreras@indystar.com. Follow her on Twitter, @NataliaECG