Murder-Suicide Reported on Indy's East Side

Murder-Suicide Reported on Indy’s East Side

IMPD confirmed that police arrived on the scene and located a man and a woman with gunshot wounds outside a vehicle in the middle of the street

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis metro police are investigating a reported murder-suicide that left a man and woman dead on the city’s east side early Monday afternoon.

Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded around 12:21 p.m. to E. 13th Street and N. Gladstone Avenue after receiving reports that a person was possibly shot in the area.

IMPD confirmed that police arrived on the scene and located a man and a woman with gunshot wounds outside a vehicle in the middle of the street. Initially, IMPD said the woman was pronounced dead on the scene while the man was transported to an area hospital in critical condition. The man later died shortly after arriving at the hospital.

IMPD Public Information Officer Drew Brown confirmed that detectives are investigating the deadly double shooting as a reported murder-suicide at this time. Police are actively looking to determine if it was domestic-related in nature.

“I want to recognize what brought us out here today. We had not one but two lives that were lost here in the middle of the street in a residential neighborhood,” said Brown. “The sun is shining and this is something that rattles our community. This is something that our neighbors here in this community are coming to grips with as well as families that are obviously grieving.”

Brown said preliminary information indicates the shooting occurred in the middle of the street. Police believe the man was the shooter and turned the firearm on himself after shooting the woman.

As of this article’s publication, detectives believe the two individuals knew each other before the deadly shooting occurred. At this time, it remains unclear what their exact connection was before the shooting.

No other individuals are believed to have been involved, and police said there is no longer any ongoing threat to the surrounding community.

Brown also took the opportunity to emphasize the importance of conflict resolution to avoid “permanent consequences.”

“We’ve talked about it time and time again where the heat of the moment, where emotion turned into anger, can lead to somebody pulling the trigger on somebody else,” said Brown. “That type of temporary emotion that leads to a permanent consequence that we can’t take those moments back. Families are going to live with what has occurred here today. It’s not something that’s going to easily be dealt with.”

Detectives will remain on the scene for several more hours to process the scene for evidence as the investigation continues. Brown encouraged anyone with information related to the deadly incident to contact the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS (8477).