5 shot in northeast Indianapolis neighborhood

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Five people were shot Sunday afternoon in a housing subdivision on the northeast side, Indianapolis’ second mass shooting this month, police said.

Details shared with the public were few, but Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was sending a spokesperson to the scene.

Medics and IMPD were called just before 4:15 p.m. Sunday to a report of a person shot and an unsafe gunshot scene in the 3900 block of Hornickle Drive. That’s in the Deer Run subdivision off East 38th Street between North German Church Road and North County Line Road.

IMPD initially reported one person who was found shot at the scene was awake and breathing.

About a half hour later, three people walked into hospitals with gunshot wounds. They’d “self-transported,” IMPD said in a media alert. One was in critical condition, while the other two were stable.

Shortly after 6 p.m., a police spokesman, Executive Office William Young, said five people had been shot, with four of them going to hospitals on their own, and a fifth person found shot at the crime scene. Four of the people shot were in a vehicle, and the other was outside. One man was in critical condition, and four were stable. All were males.

The other mass shooting this month in Indianapolis happened in the early morning hours of July 5 in downtown Indianapolis near the Artsgarden. In that shooting, two people died and five people were injured. The Gun Violence Archive says four suspects were arrested.

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