5 people shot in 3 separate incidents in 4 hours

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In the space of just a few hours, five people were shot Sunday in Indianapolis in three separate incidents, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police said.



Three people were shot in the first incident, which occurred just after 4 p.m. on the

northeast side. Around 5 p.m., one person was shot during a domestic altercation. Less than two hours later, police received reports that a 14-year-old boy was shot on the north side, CBS4 Indy reported.



As of 8:30 p.m. Sunday, none of the shootings had proved fatal. Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened in the first and third incidents, said IMPD Officer Aaron Hamer.



While the number is not unprecedented — last month five teenagers were shot in about a 24-hour period — Hamer said police are working to unravel what happened.

"We would consider that a number we would have to look into to see exactly what’s going on. One person shot is a lot to us," Hamer said. "I think our city ebbs and flows. If you look at last weekend, I don’t think we had five people shot."

The bloodshed began with a shooting in the parking lot area of the Shadeland Court apartments at the 3900 block of N. Shadeland Ave., Hamer said.

IMPD officers are looking at three separate locations for evidence connected to this incident, Hamer said.

"Detectives are trying to figure out exactly what took place," Hamer said. "There are multiple witnesses they're trying to talk to."

All three victims were brought to Eskenazi Hospital, where one was initially listed as critical before being upgraded to stable condition.

Hamer did not say if there was more than one shooter or how they might have gotten away. The victims don't appear to have a relationship with one another, he said, and could potentially be random.

No one is in custody, and police are continuing to look for information about the shooter or shooters.

IMPD officers have been to the apartment complex in the past for other calls, Hamer said.

"There have been multiple incidents here," he said.

Tyree Johnson, 34, has lived in Shadeland Court apartments for almost a year, and said he was laughing and joking with one of the victims outside just before the shooting. Johnson then left briefly to make a quick trip to the Family Dollar store across the street.

"I came back and I had just seen him bleeding," he said. By that time, many neighbors were on their phones calling police.

Johnson didn't hear or see the shooting, he said, but is no longer sure he feels safe in the apartment building.

"There's so much that goes on out here," he said. "It could've been me. I could've caught one if I hadn't gone over there to the Family Dollar."

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