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INDIANAPOLIS — It may be the start of a long summer, said Rev. Charles Harrison.

“It very well could be,” Harrison told WISH-TV. “When the weather tends to warm up we tend to have more violence on the streets. It should be concerning to all of us and we have to address it immediately.”

Harrison’s prediction comes as six people were shot and killed in the span of about 24 hours over the weekend in Indianapolis. It started late Saturday evening when a man was found shot to death along Bellefontaine Street just east of 17th and College. 

Nearly two hours later, Indy Metro Police officers were called to an apartment along Twin Oaks Drive, near 34th Street and Shadeland Avenue. They found a man shot and killed lying on the sidewalk outside.

“This is troubling. This is outrageous,” Harrison said. “Leaders have to come together and say this can not be acceptable and tolerated in our city. We cannot have this senseless violence go on.”

Except it did. Early Sunday morning a woman was shot to death at what is described by a witness as a biker bar along Roosevelt Avenue, near Massachusetts Avenue and Sherman Drive.

Things were quite for several ours Sunday until around 3:00 in the afternoon, when police were called to the intersection of 34th Street and Franklin Road. The arrievd to find a 17-year-old boy shot and killed.

The friend who was walking with the victim was not injured and was speaking to detectives on Sunday afternoon, said IMPD public information officer Genae Cook.

The final person shot and killed was a 21-year-old man along North Tuxedo Street, between Rural Street and Sherman Drive, at around 9:30 Sunday night. 

IMPD does not have any suspects to speak of an any of the shootings.

(PHOTO: WISH-TV)