INDIANAPOLIS — Investigators are piecing together what led to Sunday night’s deadly shooting at a gas station on the south side of Indianapolis.
A man was killed and a woman was injured in the shooting around 10:40 p.m. at the Marathon gas station on Thompson Road at Harding Street.
Courtney Hall told 13News she is the woman who was shot in both of her arms during the carjacking at the gas station.
Hall said all four of her children, ranging in age from 2 to 10, were in the car when she ran in to get something from the gas station's convenience store. When she came out, the suspect would not let her get into her car.
“When I came back out, there was a man. He was knocking on my windows and pulling on my door handles trying to get in the car. I had walked up to him and I was like, 'Can you please back away from my car because kids are in there? I need to go home,'" Hall said. "He was like, 'I need a ride. I need you to give me a ride right now.' I was like, 'I can’t do that. I’ve got my kids in the car right now.'"
She said the man jumped on her and they tussled for a moment.
"I guess he didn’t think I was going to fight back, but I wasn’t letting him in the car with my kids,” Hall said. “It was scary. Like, I just didn’t think it would happen to me."
“I don’t even know what I was thinking. I was just, like, 'Fight back, don’t let him in the car,'” Hall told 13News.
Hall said a bystander came to her rescue as she fought with the suspect, who was shot and killed by that bystander.
A stolen car found at the scene was involved in a carjacking about 40 minutes earlier, less than four miles away.
Brenda Stacker was watching the breaking news coverage on 13News late Sunday night. During the report, Stacker saw her black Buick sedan on the screen. She had just reported the car stolen after she and her son were carjacked about 10 p.m. at the Mann Road Pantry.
She described how a man confronted them when her son put the car in park.
"Grabbed the door and yanked Brandon out the car, and then, the next thing I know, he got the gun pointed at me, and I said, 'Oh my god, what am I doing now?' In my mind, I was saying, 'Just get out the car,'” Stacker said.
Stacker went to the gas station to see what happened. Police believe another carjacking or robbery led to the shooting at the Marathon. They have interviewed a person of interest, but they are still investigating. Police said there were children in one of the cars involved.
Tuesday morning, the Marion County Coroner's Office identified the deceased as 26-year-old Devan M. Dungan.
"I’m thinking that that could have happened to me,” Stacker said. “So, we really were lucky. That's all I could say about that."
Stacker said she was making her regular trip to the Mann Road Pantry Sunday night to buy lottery tickets.
"When you leave your house, make sure that you pay attention to what's going on around you,” Stacker said, “because you never know, it could happen to you. I never thought that I would be carjacked at the age of 70."