By Jill Disis

jill.disis@indystar.com

A teenager was shot and killed on the Eastside and another man fatally stabbed in the neck at an airport hotel overnight, the first violent deaths recorded in the city this year.

The first death happened at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday when Indianapolis Metropolitan Police went to South Temple Avenue and Graydon Street on the city’s Eastside on reports that a person had been shot, according to an IMPD report.

When police arrived they found a 16-year-old boy in the street with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency medical crews, the report says.

The teenager was later identified as Tyrell Alford, Indianapolis. His age was initially reported to be 17.

There are no suspects in Alford’s death.

Interactive map:Marion County homicides from 2006 to date

Just over an hour later at about 1:44 a.m., police were dispatched to the Hyatt Place Indianapolis Airport Hotel, 5500 W. Bradbury Ave. on the Southwestside, on a report that a person had been stabbed.

At the scene they found a man in the hotel lobby with a stab wound to his neck, according to an IMPD report. Police say they believe the incident happened in the parking lot of the hotel. The man was not a guest of the hotel.

The man, who has not been identified, was taken to Eskenazi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The case was classified as a criminal homicide in the report, though there are no witnesses or suspects at this time, according to an IMPD news release.

The latest incidents come as Indianapolis finished its deadliest year since 2006.

In 2013, police recorded 126 criminal homicides, including one death in a suspected murder-suicide attempt on Dec. 31. It was the first time that number eclipsed 100 in five years.

In 2006, police recorded 140 murders in the city.

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