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Woman identified after getting shot at Indianapolis pub, dying after crash on way to hospital

IMPD has issued a closure order that prevents further operations of JD's Pub for the foreseeable future. This comes less than a day after a woman was shot there.

INDIANAPOLIS — A woman who was shot at a northwest side bar died in a rollover crash on Interstate 65 just minutes away from the hospital early Saturday. 

IMPD said officers were originally called to a report of a person shot shortly after 2 a.m. at JD's Pub, located at 6920 Eagle Highlands Way near I-465 and west 38th Street.

When they arrived, they didn't find a victim. Investigators did find 15 shell casings in the pub's parking lot in the strip mall where the shooting happened, and a window to the bar was broken. 

Then, they received information that the victim was being driven to the hospital. 

Not long after, IMPD and State Police were told the gunshot victim was in a crash on I-65 near the exit to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, which is one exit north of the IU Health Methodist Hospital trauma center. 

The car rolled off the highway and into a ditch.

The woman was taken from the crash scene to the hospital in critical condition, but died there, according to police. The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the woman as 27-year-old Deja Morse. As of Monday afternoon, the coroner had not yet determined her cause of death.

Less than a day after the shooting and subsequent crash, IMPD Nuisance Abatement Unit issued a closure order preventing further operations of JD's Pub "for the foreseeable future," according to IMPD's Kendale Adams.

Credit: WTHR
Pike Township Fire Department issued a forbid to occupy order after a woman was shot at JD's Pub on Indy's northwest side.

IMPD did not provide information about any other injuries from the crash.

Investigators have not determined what led to the crash on I-65, and detectives have not shared any information about a suspect or circumstances around the shooting.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact IMPD Detective Connie Pearson at 317-327-3544.

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