Man dies after being shot by police on city's north side: What we know
This article will update as more information becomes available.
INDIANAPOLIS — Police responding to reports of an armed person were involved in a shooting on the city's north side.
About 2:15 p.m. Thursday Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched regarding a person with a weapon in the 3900 block of Broadway Street, near 38th Street and North College Avenue. Minutes later, medics were called to the scene, according to online police logs.
The person, a man not yet publicly identified, was "pointing a firearm at people (and) threatening to shoot them," said Officer William Young.
Initial calls about the man with a weapon came in from 38th Street before another 911 caller said the man was on her porch and pointed a gun at her face, and another witness said the man pointed the firearm at officers, Chief Chris Bailey said in a news conference streamed live by WTHR. A firearm was found on the porch steps and may have been damaged during the shooting, Bailey added.
The man shot by an officer was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he later died, Bailey said.
Investigators are looking into why the man was in the area and what else might have led to the shooting.
Two officers fired their weapons and are on administrative duty, which is standard in these cases. Police said no officers were injured.
This is the second shooting in as many days involving local police departments. On Wednesday a Beech Grove Police Department officer fatally shot a man armed with a knife while responding to a child custody dispute.
The shooting comes roughly two weeks after Mayor Joe Hogsett and Bailey announced the Department of Justice would conduct an extensive review of shootings by police after a sharp spike in 2023 when officers were involved in 17 shootings that killed or injured someone.
This is the fourth time in 2024 that Indianapolis police have shot someone. Raphael Dekemper, 41, was shot and killed in a Jan. 24 shootout with officers on Brookside Parkway North Drive; Dominique Lamonte Durham Sr., 37, was fatally shot March 24 in an exchange of gunfire with off-duty officers working security at a nightclub on East Washington Street; and Luis Duran-Ruano, 31, was killed after a SWAT standoff on Winston Avenue that started with a call about a man firing shots into the air near West 33rd Street and Georgetown Road.
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Just after 2:15pm, officers responded to the 3900 Blk of N Broadway St for an adult male waving a gun, pointing it at people and threatening to shoot. Minutes later, an officer involved shooting occurred. The suspect was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
— IMPD (@IMPDnews) May 2, 2024
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