INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating after a man was killed and a young male was critically injured in a shooting on Indianapolis' northeast side Wednesday evening.
Shortly before 9 p.m. Oct. 4, officers responded to the 5800 block of East 40th Street, just west of North Arlington Avenue, for a report of a person shot.
Officers located two victims, a man and a young male, with gunshot wounds.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The minor was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
On Oct. 5, the Marion County Coroner's Office identified the man who died as 19-year-old Fredrick Jamar Johnson III.
Additional information on the circumstances of the shooting has not been shared by police.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Detective David Miller at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email David.Miller2@indy.gov. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.