INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating after three people were injured late Tuesday when gunfire broke out on the canal in downtown Indianapolis.
Just before midnight, IMPD officers responded to the 400 block of Indiana Avenue, near West Vermont Street, for reports of shots fired and a person shot.
Police located three victims, two women and a man, with apparent gunshot wounds.
IMPD said the women were stable when taken to a local hospital. The male victim declined treatment at the scene, according to police.
"It was pretty scary. I didn’t see anything happen, but I just heard loud pops,” said Chris Little, who lives on the canal.
Little said at first, he thought it was just fireworks.
“I didn’t think much of it at the time until I heard the news afterward,” Little said.
In the last three years, IMPD and the city have invested in new technology and security on the canal, including more cameras, overtime for officers and increased lighting.
“Even last night, officers were already on their way to this area before the first 911 call came in because of the technology here on the canal,” Sgt. Genae Cook said.
The cameras are monitored by IMPD, especially on busy weekends like the Fourth of July. In fact, one of the cameras is located just a feet away from where Tuesday night’s shooting happened.
“That is giving more information to our detectives, more information for them to follow up on, and hopefully, that will allow them to solve this case faster,” Cook said.
Last summer, the new cameras helped police arrest two people in connection to a shooting that hurt four women on the canal.
No suspect information has been released at this time.
Anyone with information on the incident can contact Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.
(NOTE: Two shootings that were previously included in this story have been determined to be accidental and self-inflicted, IMPD said in an update.)