IMPD: Woman shot, killed on city’s southwest side
UPDATE: The woman shot and killed Saturday morning was identified Monday by the Marion County coroner as 35-year-old Erica Pedroza.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis police were investigating after a woman was shot and killed Saturday morning on the city’s southwest side.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called at 7:30 a.m. to a home in the 800 block of Orchard Grove Lane. That’s a neighborhood near Friendswood and State Road 67, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Indianapolis.
Officers entered the home and found a woman who had been shot. She died at the scene, according to IMPD Public Information Officer Lt. Shane Foley.
“I can tell you that there are no obvious signs of forced entry,” Foley told News 8. “The individual who located the female is a resident and there was nobody else in the home when officers arrived.”
Police did not share any additional details about the victim. The Marion County Coroner’s Office will share the woman’s name once her relatives have been notified.
Lt. Foley says the woman’s death is being investigated as a homicide, but investigators are still working to figure out when the shooting happened and what led up to it.
“Anyone with information, whether it be they heard shots fired, will help detectives get an idea of when this incident occurred. If they have any cameras on their homes that are in the area, if they have any doorbell cameras that might have captured something that occurred, we’re asking them to contact the homicide office.”
Criminal activity is unusual in the area, Foley says, and there’s not a history of police runs to the home where the shooting happened.
“It’s a bit odd for this area, but sometimes, what we find is those neighborhoods that have experienced less incidents of violent crime tend to be more alert to it and then are looking at their cameras. They can be very responsive. So we’re hoping that someone in the area knows something and can share that with detectives.”
Anyone with information was asked to contact the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.
