At 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, two women were injured by gunfire along South Meridian and Washington streets, a block away from Monument Circle.
“So we believe this is an isolated occurrence for now; it appears to be an argument between two people,” said IMPD Sgt Christopher Higgins, who added that investigators were “reviewing footage from our community partners that has been provided, and we’re working through the evidence.”
According to the police report, a male suspect and a 16-year-old female were both present at the shooting, which occurred several hours after the city’s kid curfew rule would have gone into effect.
This morning’s shooting took place on nearly the same block as Lamonte Thomas’ murder in March.
It occurred just a few blocks down Meridian Street from where many individuals were wounded in a November shooting and not far from where Gregory Anderson was gunned down on Race Morning last month, injuring two others.
Sunday’s pre-dawn shooting occurred just a few blocks from the scene of Brett Scrogham’s death in an attempted carjacking in a parking garage at six p.m. on a recent Thursday night.
His alleged 14-year-old murderer will be tried as an adult.
Despite the murder in the heart of the city, IMPD Chief Tonya Terry believes that no one should be frightened to visit downtown.
“Our downtown is a safe downtown,” Terry told reporters earlier this month, following the arrest of Scrogham’s alleged killer. “Downtown is still one of the safest neighbourhoods in our city.” It accounts for less than 7% of all crime in our city.
In the early morning darkness, illuminated by blazing police lights and surrounded by crime scene tape, Sgt Higgins reiterated the chief’s assurances.
“We do believe our downtown district to be safe again,” he stated. “We are incredibly thankful that the community and the public, particularly our downtown district, have collaborated so well with us over the last few years to make it our safest district. The downtown district is responsible for less than 6% of the crime downtown, and it is because of our community partnerships, businesses, and community members coming forward and providing information so that we can solve crime quickly and bring people to justice, discouraging people from continuing the violence downtown.”
Last week, IMPD said that a man and a teenager were arrested for shooting a victim again on June 5 at Meridian and Washington streets.
Homicide detectives have made arrests in each downtown homicide this year, but the double killings of two teens beneath the Artsgarden hours after the city’s downtown The Fourth of July celebration last year remains unresolved.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Registry identifies 238 sex offenders who reside in the Mile Square.
A robbery was reported on Mass Ave on Sunday afternoon.
Within a few blocks of today’s violence, IMPD police arrested three people less than three hours before the incident.
Two persons were arrested for separate incidents in Meridian and Washington, including an attack and a fight.
Another person was arrested for fighting and intimidation in the Bar District, three blocks south.
The majority of the eight people included in the four reports, including the double shooting, had already been reported as victims, witnesses, or arrestees in previous years.
One was a molestation victim, another was a victim of marital violence, and a 19-year-old lady was arrested at the age of 12 for battery on a public safety officer, a year after being expelled from school.
Two of the individuals identified in this morning’s police reports had prior criminal convictions.
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