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Police: Former employee arrested after shooting at Beech Grove KFC

The shooting happened just before 8 p.m. in the parking lot of a KFC restaurant in the 4000 block of South Emerson Avenue.

INDIANAPOLIS — A 24-year-old man was arrested after a shooting that seriously injured another man at a fast food restaurant in Beech Grove Tuesday night. In an update Wednesday, police said the suspect had been fired from the restaurant earlier in the day.

The shooting happened just before 8 p.m. in the parking lot of a KFC restaurant in the 4000 block of South Emerson Avenue

At the scene, officers located a man with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis in "serious but stable" condition, the Beech Grove Police Department said. A worker told 13News the man shot was an employee at the KFC.

Tuesday night, police said investigators believed a man drove into the parking lot and shot another man who was standing in the lot. 

The suspect was arrested at his home by police without incident on a preliminary charge of aggravated battery.

(NOTE: 13News does not name suspects in cases until formal charges are filed by prosecutors.)

The incident remains under investigation.

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