INDIANAPOLIS — A pair of Indianapolis teenagers are under arrest after police say a shots fired investigation turned into a chase on Indy's northwest side Wednesday afternoon.
IMPD arrested two 16-year-old boys, both for felony possession of a firearm by a dangerous person and resisting law enforcement, and one for criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.
According to recently released court documents, around 2:30 p.m. on June 12, IMPD officers were conducting an investigation regarding shots being fired near West 29th Street.
During the investigation, an IMPD officer stationed on Indianapolis Avenue near West 29th Street saw a red Kia SUV pull up. Court documents say the officer saw two young males get out of the Kia. One of them reportedly had a handgun tucked into his waistband while the other was wearing a ski mask.
According to court documents, the officer saw the male in the ski mask walk into a residence on West 29th Street while the male with the handgun returned to the Kia. After relaying this information, police suspected the male with the ski mask was the primary suspect in the shots fired investigation.
Eventually, court documents say, the suspect in the ski mask exited the residence on West 29th Street wearing a different color hoodie with the ski mask still on and the hood up. He then was seen getting back inside the red Kia. A woman was seen driving the two male suspects away from the scene.
A search warrant was quickly granted for the residence on West 29th Street police had been investigating.
Court documents show that once the warrant was granted, an IMPD officer began following the red Kia and eventually was able to pull it over on the Interstate 65 ramp onto West 30th Street. The Kia came to a stop, but the two males jumped out of the car and fled down the side of the interstate near Congress Avenue before police eventually lost sight of them.
Another IMPD officer reportedly intercepted one of the boys at the intersection of 32nd Street and Boulevard Place while other officers apprehended the second boy in an alley behind Congress Avenue.
Court documents say that once the boys were detained, a K-9 officer found a handgun near the hill where the boys fled. It allegedly matched the same handgun spotted tucked into one of the boys waistbands on West 29th Street.
Both teens were preliminarily charged with possession of a firearm by a dangerous person and resisting law enforcement. One of the teens is also facing a charge of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.
(NOTE: 13News has a policy not to name suspects until formal charges are filed by a prosecutor.)
