Girl in hospital after being shot in neck at apartments on east side
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A girl was injured Sunday night in a shooting at apartments on the city’s east side.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were called just after 8 p.m. to the Washington Pointe Apartments — just off East 10th Street near north German Church Road — on a report of a person shot.
They arrived to find a girl shot in the neck. She was taken to Riley Hospital for Children, where she was stable, police said at the scene.
No information about the age or identity of the girl was immediately provided.
Police did not say where the shooting happened or provide any suspect details.
This is the eighth child shot in Indianapolis in less than a month.
“It’s hard for the officers because many of them have children themselves or they have other family members that are children so it affects them immensely because we have an innocent victim here,” said IMPD Cpt. Don Weilhammer. “ I can’t stress enough that violence is not the answer. Using a gun is not the answer. But, many people do and this is unfortunately what happens… somebody who is innocent gets injured.”
Juveniles injured in shootings
Since July 31, seven juveniles have been injured in shootings around Indianapolis. Police in the past week said far too many kids are getting hurt in city shootings and that the community needs to take care of our kids.
On Saturday night, a 12-year-old boy was injured in a triple shooting near the area of 28th and Wheeler streets. The boy was found shot in the leg in the 2700 block of Parker Avenue and was taken to Riley Hospital for Children. About a block away on Wheeler Street, a man was found fatally shot and a woman was shot and injured. A fourth person walked into an area hospital with injuries believed to be connected to the incident but not necessarily from gunshot wounds.
The 12-year-old boy is the seventh juvenile in 15 days to be injured in a shooting in Indianapolis.
Early Saturday morning, a boy was among five people shot at the intersection of West 38th Street and Lafayette Road. One man was found dead at the scene. The boy and another man walked into Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital. The boy’s injuries were not expected to be life-threatening.
On Thursday, a 17-year-old boy was shot inside a Steak ‘N Shake restaurant on North Post Road near I-70. Police said they believed the shooter was outside the drive-thru window. The boy was shot in the shoulder and was stable, according to police.
On Wednesday, an 11-year-old girl was shot during an incident that wounded a woman and a police officer injured at an apartment complex near 75th Street and Shadeland Avenue. The woman died of her injuries on Friday, and police said they were hopeful the girl would survive her injuries. The gunman took his own life, according to police.
On Sunday, a boy in an SUV was grazed by a bullet on the city’s near northwest side, at 26th and Harding streets. It happened at 5 in the evening and another man was shot. Police do not think either were the intended target.
On July 31, five people were shot outside a funeral home, including a 4-year-old and a 16-year-old. It happened during the day on West 30th Street.
