INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The five people injured during the mass shooting Sunday afternoon in a housing subdivision on the city’s northeast side were males from 10 to 19 years old, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

The mass shooting was the second this month in Indianapolis.

People who live in the area tell told I-Team 8 on Monday that the shooting was not normal for their neighborhood. Leftover crime scene tape was all that’s left from the crime scene.

Several people who live in this area did not want to speak with I-Team 8 on camera said they heard a lot of gunfire and a car speeding off. When they came outside they found a teenager who had been shot.

IMPD told I-Team 8 the other four people shot arrived at the hospital in their own car.

One person who lives in the area who declined to go on camera told I-Team 8 their home security cameras captured what happened. They would not give us the video because they had already turned it over to IMPD.

Larry Fountain has lived in the area 20 years and has never seen something like this happen. “This neighborhood is very peaceful and quiet because all the neighbors with neighborhood watch. They watch out for each other. You don’t normally have a lot of shootings in this neighborhood, as opposed to other neighborhoods, in my opinion.”

For Fountain, the ages of the people involved was the most shocking part: “Ten is really young. Nineteen is understandable, but it’s just disturbing.”

The shooting did not change his opinion about the neighborhood, “I feel relatively safe because anything can happen anywhere, so it don’t really matter.”

IMPD as of Monday afternoon was continuing to to find out exactly what went down.

IMPD has said it believes the five people who were shot were the only people involved.

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 boys ages 15 and 16 died and five people — ages 16, 17, 19 and 21 — were injured. The Gun Violence Archive says four suspects were arrested.

The July 5 shooting caused the Indianapolis City-County Council to propose changing its youth curfew restrictions, and councilors are set to vote on those changes as early as Aug. 11. Meanwhile, a state lawmaker from Indianapolis has proposed that the state government take over the Mile Square in downtown Indianapolis that includes the Artsgarden and Monument Circle.

News 8’s Gregg Montgomery contributed to this report.

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