INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD homicide detectives are investigating a man found shot at an apartment complex on the northwest side early Friday morning.
Just before 2 a.m., officers were called to a reported shooting at 5849 Sebring Court in the Ashford Apartments off Georgetown Road and found 24-year-old Dezmond King outside of an apartment building.
His injuries were consistent with a gunshot wound and medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
The shooting marks the 245th homicide of the year in Indianapolis, tying the record set in 2020 with five weeks in the year remaining. The city had already surpassed the number of criminal homicides — those that were not classified as self-defense — it recorded in 2020.
By Friday, Indianapolis had gone more than a week without a homicide. The previous one happened Tuesday, Nov. 16 in Gardner Park on the city's east side.
Anyone with information about the shooting at Ashford Apartments should call Detective Gary Toms at the IMPD homicide office at 317.327.3475 or e-mail him at Gary.Toms@indy.gov. Anonymous tips can be left with Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317.262.8477 or (TIPS).