INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD homicide detectives are investigating after a 27-year-old man who had been shot was found dead on Indianapolis' near northwest side Monday morning.
Around 6:45 a.m. Sept. 25, officers responded to the 800 block of West 25th Street, near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, for a death investigation.
Officers located a man inside a silver SUV in an alley with apparent traumatic injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and further examination revealed he had been shot, an IMPD spokesperson said.
The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the man as 27-year-old Davion Grundy.
Officers responded to the address, which is a vacant home, after a call from a relative of the victim, IMPD said.
Brandon Cosby is the CEO of Flannery House, which is only a few blocks from where the victim was found.
“With the work that we’re engaged in and all of the neighborhood and community partners who try to come together to try to create a more peaceful environment, it’s always heartbreaking when something like this happens," Cosby said.
He's upset that this one act of violence will overshadow all the good he and others in the community are doing for this neighborhood.
“Perhaps if we can think about flipping that on its head, so that we would further be able to have support in promoting the beautiful things that are happening, we exponentially increase the likelihood that incidents like last night don’t occur," Cosby said.
Police said they don't currently believe the victim was living at the home, and that the victim's time of death was not immediately known.
"When officers arrived, there were no people in the area that witnessed what occurred. That’s why we’re leaning on our community to ask them to come forward," IMPD Officer Samone Burris said. "Maybe they were driving through the area, maybe they heard something. We’re still trying to piece together a timeline, so we’re not quite sure when the victim was declared deceased, time of death or anything like that.”
Anyone in the area who may have heard or seen something unusual between late Sunday and early Monday, or who has any information on the incident, is asked to contact the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email Detective Jeremy Ingram at Jeremy.Ingram@indy.gov. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.