Person dies after found shot in residential area on west side
UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 53-year-old Charles Ray Cole.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A person has died after being found shot late Thursday night on the city’s west side, police say.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was called to a shots fired report shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday to the 200 block of Bertha Court. That’s in a residential area northeast of the intersection of West Washington Street and South Lynhurst Drive.
The person died at the scene.
No information was immediately available on the person shot or a possible suspect, or whether the area was safe.
The fatal shooting is the second on Thursday. A woman was found fatally shot in a car about 2:30 p.m. Thursday on West 38th Street at White River Parkway East Drive. Police have not said where the woman had been shot.
At least four other shootings happened Thursday in Indianapolis:
- A person was found a person shot sometime before 4:30 a.m. Thursday in an apartment complex in the 5140 block of Southgreen Drive. That’s southeast of U.S. 31 and Thompson Road on the far south side. The person was last reported to be in critical condition but stable.
- Sometime before 2:15 p.m. Thursday, a person was found shot at East 19th Street and North Rural Street. That person was last reported to be in critical condition. A News 8 photographer says about eight blocks were cordoned off in the area. A spokesman for IMPD says representatives from a gun task force and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were doing an unrelated investigation in the same area when the shooting happened.
- A person who’d been shot walked into IU Health Methodist Hospital shortly after 9:20 p.m. Thursday. The person’s condition was not immediately known, but it’s initially thought the shooting happened in a residential area in the 3200 block of Brouse Avenue. That’s a block east of North Keystone Avenue off East 32nd Street.
- Indianapolis police officers shortly after 10:05 p.m. Thursday found a person shot at Community Hospital East, 1500 N. Ritter Ave. The person was last reported to be in stable condition. No information was given on where the shooting happened.
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