Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Eight Shot, Five Dead In Violent 24-Hour Period

At least eight people have been shot, leaving five dead, in Indianapolis during the most violent 24-hour period this year. The first shooting claimed one victim on the City's westside yesterday afternoon. That was followed up by two double shootings last night. Two people were found shot in a crashed car on the City's northeast side, one of whom was dead. A few hours later, two women were shot in a home on the City's east side. Another shooting shortly before midnight claimed the life of a sixth victim on the City's southside. Early this morning, two people were found dead in an apartment complex in Lawrence in an apparent murder-suicide. That brings the year's homicide rate to date close to 70.

5 comments:

varangianguard said...

They aren't playing cricket!

Paul K. Ogden said...

I wonder if the murder in Lawrence gets counted in the Indianapolis total.

Gary R. Welsh said...

I don't think they count them, Paul.

CircleCityScribe said...

...they had a shoot out on a church parking lot at 1:00 in the morning last Saturday night. Nobody from the neighborhood involved, but it sounded like war. And our Mayor vetoed the bill to recruit and train new police officers!

I wouldn't be surprised if the Mayor adds to the expense of his $6 Million cricket field, some lights so those same people may loiter on the lot of the cricket field and shoot guns and see the targeted people better....

CircleCityScribe said...

...and on the topic of murder, didn't Frank Straub change the credo of the Indianapolis homicide detectives from: "Do what it takes to solve the crime"...to a new version: "you can't solve them all, move on the next case"?????