HENDRICKS COUNTY, Ind. — A 15-year-old is under arrest in the killing of a 21-year-old Indianapolis man found Tuesday in a car that crashed into a neighborhood house in Hendricks County.
The incident happened in the Eagle Crossing neighborhood, near 56th Street and Raceway Road, around 4:30 p.m. March 5.
Deputies with the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a vehicle collision near Eagle Crossing Drive and Memorial Knoll Drive, near Brownsburg. When they arrived, the deputies found that a Honda sedan had struck the back of a house.
Deputies found the driver, a 21-year-old Indianapolis man who was the only occupant of the vehicle, and discovered he had an apparent gunshot wound in his torso. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Hendricks County Coroner's Office identified the victim as Carlos Neri-Guzman.
The residents of the house were inside at the time of the crash, but no one was injured, deputies said.
"When I pulled on to the main road, the whole street was filled with fire trucks, ambulances, cops," neighbor Taylor Clark said.
Around 2 a.m. March 6, a 15-year-old male from Brownsburg was located and taken into custody while police executed a search warrant at a house on McClain Drive. The teen is being held at a juvenile facility and faces preliminary charges of murder and dangerous possession of a firearm.
"The Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office is deeply saddened by this tragic and senseless loss of human life," the office said in a statement.
The Hendricks County Prosecutor's Office will make final charging decisions in the case.
"I thought it was an accident, maybe somebody pressed on the gas instead of the breaks on accident,” Clark said. "I was surprised because the neighborhood is typically safe.”
"Shocking and surprising given the circumstance,” Clark said. "I didn't feel skittish or afraid or anything. It seems like it's kind of a freak accident, a onetime thing"