Family wants answers after man killed in downtown apartment
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Homicide detectives are looking for answers — and suspects — after a man was found dead inside a downtown Indianapolis apartment.
Just after 2 p.m. Wednesday, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were sent to the 14th floor of Barton Tower in the 500 block of Massachusetts Avenue for a welfare check.
Officers entered an apartment and found a man, identified as 65-year-old Forest Hill Jr., “who sustained injuries consistent consistent with trauma” inside an apartment. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
His family tells News 8 he was found on his bed with blood and money surrounding him and beaten.
“A mess. Blood everywhere,” his sister, Rece Hill, said.
Rece Hill said her brother had been released from prison in July before moving into the apartment. He hoped to make a new life for himself there.
Several family members said that despite the building’s security team and cameras, they felt he would have been safer in prison.