INDIANAPOLIS — Metro police homicide detectives are investigating an early morning shooting near Lafayette Square Saturday that left one person dead and four others wounded, including a juvenile.
Officers were called to the shooting in a strip mall parking lot on the corner of 38th Street and Lafayette Road shortly after 5 a.m.
They located two men who were shot. One was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other was awake and breathing and is now described by police as stable at Eskenazi Hospital. Authorities have not shared their names.
A short time later, a woman who had been shot walked into St. Vincent Hospital on 86th Street. IMPD said she's in stable condition. A man and a boy, both of whom had been shot, walked into Eskenazi Hospital around the same time. Police described their injuries as not life-threatening.
IMPD said all three walk-ins to the hospital are believed to be involved with the shooting near Lafayette Square.
Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting. Investigators have not determined what led to the shootings.
Anyone with information about this incident should call Detective Michael Wright at the IMPD homicide office at 317.327.3475 or e-mail him at Michael.Wright@indy.gov. They can call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317.262.8477 or (TIPS) to remain anonymous.