Kaitlin L Lange

IndyStar

At least 16 people reported gun fire or stray bullets hitting vehicles and homes throughout Indianapolis, and another person was shot as people celebrated the new year.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers found one person shot in a parking lot in the 100 block of E. St. Joseph St. just before 3 a.m. Sunday, according to police reports. Dominique Sheridan, 27, was transported to a local hospital, and the IMPD Aggravated Assault Investigator was on scene investigating.

IMPD spokesman Jim Gillespie said she was not cooperating with police, but she is in stable condition.

An hour earlier police were told someone was shot near Georgia and Meridian Streets. When they investigated they did not find an injured person. Instead there was a vehicle running, with its doors open and no one around. Police located bullets and fragments nearby.

Police do not think the two incidents were related.

Other bullets damaged homes and vehicles.

Lindsey Taylor, 35, was at her home on 30th and Franklin Road with her two children, ages two and five, her wife and mother-in-law, when gunshots began.

Taylor and her family had just watched the ball drop and kissed to celebrate the new year, when they heard a ding and wood splintering. She immediately got her children on the floor. After investigating, they found a bullet hole in the door off their garage.

"I am still angry, but thankful my children, family and animals weren't harmed," Taylor said in a message. "But I keep thinking that at any point my kids could have been running right past the door. I don't think it was intentional, just a scary situation. It would be nice to not have to lay low (literally) on New Year's Eve."

She intends to file a police report, but has not done so yet.

There were other reports of stray bullets and shots fired throughout the city. Residences were struck on Massachusetts Avenue, East 34th Street, North Euclid Avenue, Mellis Court, North Colorado Avenue, Dubarry Road, North Meridian Street, Hovey Street and Rolling Dunes Drive

There were additional reports of vehicles with bullet holes on Sloan Avenue,Willow Glen Court, Middlefield Drive, North Linwood Avenue and Lafayette Road.

An ambulance was also reportedly shot at on North Ritter Avenue.

Vic Ryckaert contributed to this story.

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