INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man is recovering after being struck by a bullet that fell from the sky on New Year’s Day morning, an incident police believe resulted from celebratory gunfire.
Gabriel West said he was working on the city’s southwest side around early Thursday morning when he was hit by what police say was a stray bullet in the 4300 block of South High School Road. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers found West suffering from minor injuries.
“It aches. It feels like a ball peen hammer hit me in the head,” West said. “Lucky to be alive.”…