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IMPD finds 39-year-old man's body near Garfield Park

IMPD responded to the area of 2300 Pagoda Drive around 3 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25.

INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating a homicide after officers found a man's body on the south side of Indianapolis early Sunday morning. 

Just before 3 a.m. Aug. 25, officers responded to a report of a person down in the 2300 block of Pagoda Drive, near Garfield Park, according to IMPD.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man's body with reported traumatic injuries. IEMS arrived shortly after and pronounced the man dead at the scene. 

The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the man as 39-year-old John P. Hamby III.

IMPD is asking anyone with information on this incident to contact Detective Kyle Hoover at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email him at Kyle.Hoover@indy.gov.

Anonymous tips can be submitted by contacting Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.

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