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MUNCIE, Ind. — Five people were shot early Sunday morning in a retail area in Muncie, Indiana, according to police.

Around 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the Muncie Police Department was sent to a retail area in the 2100 block of White River Boulevard. That’s about five minutes south of Ball State University’s campus.

Once on the scene, officers found two people with gunshot wounds and took them to an area hospital. Later, three additional victims arrived at the hospital also with gunshot wounds.

According to police, two of the victims shot have already been treated and released. The other three have non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

Police say that there were at least two “altercations” that happened in the parking lot of the retail area. No suspect is currently in custody.

Muncie police ask anyone with information to contact detectives at (765)-747-4867.

LEBANON, Ind. — A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for Ziarre Cobbs, a missing 17-year-old girl from Lebanon, Indiana.

The Lebanon Police Department says that she is five feet four inches tall, weighs around 140 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes. Police also say that she was last seen around 5:00 p.m. on Oct. 13 wearing a tank top and light blue jeans.

Police believe Cobbs is in danger and may need medical help.

Anyone with information on the location of Ziarre Cobbs is asked to call Lebanon police at (765)-482-8836 or 911.

INDIANAPOLIS -– Hoosiers impacted by historic flooding in August have until the end of Sunday, Oct. 25, to apply for federal assistance. 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is offering assistance for home repairs, rental or temporary housing, and other uninsured expenses as a result of the Aug. 11-24 storms. 

Applicants with insurance may still qualify for aid if their insurance didn’t fully cover disaster expenses. 

Applications can be filled out online at DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 800-621-3362.

Required information: 

• Contact information (phone number, current mailing address, email address, and damaged home address).
• Social Security number.
• General list of damage and losses.
• Annual household income.
• Banking information (If choosing direct deposit).
• If insured, the policy number or the agent and/or the company name.

Assistance covers storm damage in the following counties: Carroll, Cass, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Lake, LaPorte, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Pike, Porter, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Rush, Tipton, Union and Wayne counties. 

According to FEMA, it’s approved $154 million of survivor assistance for more than 35,900 Hoosier households.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WISH) — The No. 6 Indiana University football team got back on the winning track on Saturday afternoon with an overtime victory at Michigan.

The Hoosiers beat the Wolverines 13-6 in overtime.

It was IU’s first win at Michigan Stadium since 1967.

With the victory, IU improves to 7-1 overall on the year and 4-1 in Big Ten play.

It was IU’s first game since falling to then-No. 4 Ohio St. last weekend in Bloomington, Ind.

INDIANAPOLIS — A teenage girl is dead after being shot in Indianapolis’ northeast side early Saturday morning, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Online dispatch reports show that just before 4 a.m. Saturday, IMPD officers went to an apartment complex near the 3600 block of Bunker Hill Drive on reports of a person shot.

Once on scene, police found a teenage girl with gunshot wounds and she was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

IMPD is asking anyone with information to contact IMPD homicide detective James Hurt at (317)-327-3475. Alternatively, you can call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at (317)-262-8477.

INDIANAPOLIS — A person died late Friday afternoon after a shooting was reported in a retail area on the northwest side of Indianapolis, police said.

Medics and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were sent just before 5:30 p.m. Friday to 4150 Lafayette Road. That’s the address for a strip mall across the road from the former Lafayette Square Mall. The mall shut down in August 2022.

The strip mall includes an international grocery store, a furniture store, a paint store, a grocery and two restaurants.

Details on the shooter were not immediately available. IMPD was sending a spokesman to the scene to provide more information to the media.

MUNCIE — Muncie Police have connected a man to the killing of 17-year-old Christopher Wilson Jr., the Yorktown football star found shot to death inside a vehicle last month.

The department said detectives completed a probable cause affidavit Friday for 40-year-old Dairus E. Thompson II on a charge of aiding, inducing, or causing murder.

Thompson is currently jailed in Delaware County on a separate, unrelated case.

Police call the affidavit “one milestone” in what remains an active, ongoing investigation. No formal charges have been filed by a prosecutor.

Wilson was found shot multiple times inside a vehicle in the 1400 block of East Cromer Avenue around 3 a.m. on Oct. 5. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Yorktown High School junior had committed to play football at West Virginia in June.