Residents fearful after shooting injures 17-year-old at downtown short-term rental

INDIANAPOLIS — A 17-year-old boy was stable after a shooting at a downtown short-term rental early Sunday morning, according to Indianapolis police, medics and neighbors.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were sent at 4:22 a.m. Sunday to the short-term rental home in the Fletcher’s addition in the 1000 block of Harrison Street. That’s a few blocks northeast of the South Split of I-65/I-70 in downtown Indianapolis.

When officers arrived, they found the 17-year-old shot in the leg and called at least 15 people from the house, according to IMPD. A police report said the people ranged in ages from 15 to 20.

Investigators were working to find the person who fired the weapon. No arrests have been announced.

Bullets from the gunfire struck another nearby home, the nearby building of metal supplier Lafayette Steel & Aluminum, and two parked vehicles, a 2021 Nissan Kicks SUV and a 2017 Buick sedan.

Neighbors on the block say they live in fear. One woman, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation, said she heard the shots and later found a bullet hole in her home. Another neighbor found a bullet hole in the front of her car.

Residents say Sunday’s shooting was the third or fourth disturbance at the short-term rentals on the block in just the last few months.

IMPD reports showed officers were sent to the same short-term rental on June 6 for shots fired. The report noted reckless use of a handgun.

Neighbors told a Circle City Broadcasting reporter that three homes on the block are used as short-term rentals. While the rentals began three years ago, neighbors say, the problems escalated significantly this year.

Nearby homeowners believe the same people own all three rentals, though a local property management company handles the listings.

A Marion County property record lists Hunter and Dakota Baisa as the owners of the home where Sunday’s shooting happened, but the record doesn’t say where they are from. The owners purchased the property in March 2022.

Doorbell camera footage from the morning of the shooting showed what appeared to be a teenager walking outside the home while holding a handgun.

Indianapolis city government maintains a short-term rental registry through the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services, and IMPD enforces penalties if properties are unregistered. Circle City Broadcasting reported in July 2025 that tracking crimes at short-term rental properties relies on individual police response calls rather than a specialized tracking database.

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