INDIANAPOLIS — A 19-year-old man is dead after a shooting on the west side of Indianapolis late Wednesday afternoon.
Officers responded to a report of a person shot Aug. 2 at West 10th Street and North Rochester Avenue, near Holt Road, shortly before 6 p.m.
When police arrived, they found a man with an apparent gunshot wound. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 19-year-old Alton Ray Kerney.
A steady stream of traffic paused along West 10th Street during the investigation as police cars were parked and crime scene tape was up. The reality of it shocked some, who appeared visibly upset, as the body of a man was lying in the middle of the street.
Witnesses told police a gunfight involving several people broke out near a funeral home.
"Somebody saw something," IMPD Sgt. Genae Cook said. "They might have seen people run from the area. Anything like that is helpful. Direction of travel, where they might have went, and this could be blocks away."
Detectives canvassed the area, hoping video cameras captured images of what happened and who was involved.
"We know there's at least one person involved. How many people were there? Probably more than one," Cook said.
Neighbors who didn't want to go on camera told 13News the sound of nighttime gunfire in this area is a regular occurrence. That it happened this time in broad daylight near a busy street, ending with a man lying dead, still came as a shock.
"No one wants to see it, and we need the community to stand up and tell people, tell the courts, what they see," Cook said. "That's what's going to put a stop to it."
If you have information about the shooting, you're asked to contact IMPD Det. David Miller at 317-327-3475 or David.Miller2@indy.gov. Tips can also be made anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.