INDIANAPOLIS — Police are searching for the last of four suspects who hit a van with four children in it Tuesday afternoon, closing part of Interstate 465 on the south side of Indianapolis.
According to police, officers with the city's Crime Guns Task Force were investigating a shooting on the southeast side of Indianapolis when they observed four people who were believed to be armed get into a vehicle.
IMPD officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver failed to comply, a spokesperson said, leading officers on a chase.
Police said they ended the pursuit because of the high rate of speed.
The vehicle exited I-465 and that's when police said the vehicle hit an uninvolved van, which had four children inside, a little more than a mile from the East Street exit.
"The driver of that vehicle continued to drive recklessly onto 465 and later crashed into a vehicle that was occupied by uninvolved citizens. One of the individuals in that vehicle suffered scrapes and bruises," IMPD Sgt. Anthony Patterson said.
Cellphone video showing IMPD officers running between cars on I-465 with their rifles in hand, combing through bushes searching for the four suspects.
In a nearby neighborhood, several officers had their guns drawn as a person crawled across the grass before police took that person into custody. Another video showed a different person being walked out of the woods in handcuffs.
The person who shared these videos with 13News said investigators told her those taken into custody were involved in that police chase.
"We had drones, we had K-9s, the ISP helicopter was assisting. All the assistance that we had was what led to the capture of the three individuals that we do have in custody," Patterson said.
Police said they also found two handguns inside the suspect's car that crashed on I-465.
Investigators are still searching for one of the four people involved in Tuesday afternoon's incident.
If you have information that could help in the investigation, you're asked to call police or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.