Former Pike football player arrested in officer-involved shooting

Update: The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has identified the man arrested as Tyrice Howard-Smith.

In 2012, Howard-Smith was an All-Conference Indiana and All-Marion County football player for Pike High School his senior year before moving to the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne where he played as a defensive back. He played last season, but is not listed on the 2015 roster.

Detectives are still trying to identify the other people involved in the shooting, police said.

Earlier:

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a shooting early Sunday at an apartment complex north of IUPUI.

The man, who police say has been preliminarily charged with criminal recklessness, has not been identified. Police say they are not releasing the man’s name because detectives are showing his mug shot to witnesses.

Five people were injured during the incident, which broke out about 1:18 a.m. Sunday at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of Indiana Avenue, near the Indiana University-Purdue University campus.

When officers responded to a report of a disturbance, they heard gunshots coming from inside the building. About 150 people had gathered there for a party police called “unsanctioned.”

Security officers at the apartment building attempted to break up the gathering when an altercation in one of the units spilled into the hallway. Several women were arguing over a stolen cellphone, police said.

Two groups of men began firing handguns at each other, and as IMPD officers approached, the men opened fire on police, according to the police report.

The officers fired back, possibly striking one or more of the shooters, police said.

Police found two men shot in the hallway. They were taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital, where they were treated.

Three other men drove themselves to nearby Eskenazi Hospital with gunshot wounds apparently from the fight. They were treated there for their wounds, police said.

Police said they found two handguns in the hallway of the apartment building, which wasn’t named, and another handgun in the car driven to the hospital.

The officers involved will be placed on administrative leave, police said. The names of the wounded and the officers have not been released.

Police said Sunday they were looking at footage of security video from the apartment building to try to identify the shooters.

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