Bullets killed an 8-year-old boy inside a home after someone fired shots in a northeast-side neighborhood late Tuesday.

Officers were called shortly after 11:15 p.m. to investigate the shooting in the 3200 block of North Tacoma Avenue, a neighborhood near North Keystone Avenue and East 32nd Street, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Hewitt said.

Police found the boy had been wounded by at least one gunshot, Hewitt said. The child died at an area hospital.

The Marion County coroner's office identified the boy as Rodgerick Payne Jr., 8.

“There were shots fired out into the street," Maj. Harold Turner told Fox59. "One of those rounds entered the home, struck the young boy about the body and resulted in the young boy’s death."

It was not clear if the shots were fired deliberately at the home or at someone or something else, police said.

"We don't believe this child was a target at all," Officer Genae Cook, an IMPD spokeswoman, told IndyStar.

Police found shell casings at the scene, Fox59 reported. Other people were inside the home, but no one else was injured.

Anyone with information on the incident should call the homicide office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.

Contact IndyStar reporter Vic Ryckaert at 317-444-2701 or vic.ryckaert@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @VicRyc.