IMPD: ‘Very young’ girl dies after shot inside Indianapolis home

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A “very young” girl died Friday afternoon at an Indianapolis hospital after a shooting inside a near-north side home.

The girl’s identity and age were not immediately shared publicly.

Officer Tommy Thompson with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s public information office said a man, a woman and another “young” child arrived about noon at IU Health Methodist hospital with the girl that’d been shot. Thompson said investigators were working to determine how the man, woman and other child were related to the girl.

Detectives think the shooting happened at a home in the 2000 block Ralston Avenue. That’s in the Coopers & Pickens residential addition a few blocks east-southeast of the I-70 interchange for Keystone Way and North Rural Street.

At the home, detectives found a number of firearms, although the exact number was not immediately available, Thompson said. The firearms will be seized.

He said about the firearms, “In this instance, they were unsecured in a manner that we just can’t have little children handling firearms.”

Homicide detectives were at the home, but it was not immediately known if the case is a homicide or accidental.

Thompson did not say whether the firearms were locked and safely stored, but noted that gunlocks are available at Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library locations.

Indiana Department of Child Services also was at the home conducting an investigation, Thompson said. It’s not immediately known if Child Services had been called to the home previously.

News 8’s Michaela Springer contributed to this report.

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