Mass shooting on Christmas leaves woman dead, 5 other adults hurt
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A woman died, a man was critically hurt, and four other adults were injured after a shooting at a holiday gathering Wednesday afternoon inside a house on the city’s northeast side.
A person of interest, who was not shot, was taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening, police say.
Police had initially said five adults in total were shot, but reported Wednesday night that that they’d learned a sixth adult who was shot had walked into a hospital.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were sent just before 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to the shooting at a house in the 6400 block of Meadowlark Drive. That’s a few blocks east of the intersection of 42nd Street and Arlington Avenue in the Devington neighborhood.
A news release issued Wednesday night said the holiday gathering involved family and friends.
In an impromptu news conference about two hours after the shooting, Officer Tommy Thompson said in an impromptu news conference about two hours after the shooting, “First, let me start off with saying how tragic this incident is. Again, we’re on on Christmas Day, another shooting, and a family involved.”