INDIANAPOLIS — A woman was arrested for a shooting on the northwest side of Indianapolis Monday. It was one of several shootings that occurred throughout the day Monday, following a weekend with more than a dozen other shootings across the city.
According to IMPD, 46-year-old Richelle Hughes was arrested on preliminary charges of domestic battery with a deadly weapon and resisting law enforcement. Police said Hughes was detained shortly after the shooting and was placed under arrest later Monday.
The arrest stems from a shooting that happened just before noon. The victim told officers he was shot in his home in the 6000 block of Sunwood Drive by a woman who lives at the home with him. When officers pulled up to the residence, they saw a woman driving away from the home.
Hughes was detained after a short pursuit, IMPD said in a release.
Officers were called to a report of a person shot near the intersection of 34th Street and North High School Road. That person, who was identified as a man in the police report, had apparent gunshot wounds but was conscious and alert when taken to the hospital. IMPD later said he was in stable condition.
Aggravated assault detectives are investigating the shooting. They believe the shooting happened in the nearby Moller Creek neighborhood on Sunwood Drive.
There were four other shootings that happened over the course of the day Monday.
One on the west side, in the 800 block of Cloverleaf Terrace, left two people dead. Those victims were identified as 24-year-old DeJanelle Gaines and 26-year-old Tayveon Ward. The Marion County coroner ruled the deaths a result of murder-suicide.
The Cloverleaf Terrace shooting happened in the afternoon. As did two other shootings on the east side, one on Fall Drive and another at the Greenway Apartments, that left two people injured.
And, in the early morning hours, there was a gunshot victim who showed up at Eskenazi Hospital. Police believe the victim was shot on the southwest side in the area of Harding and Morris streets.
The shootings follow a weekend in which IMPD said it responded to more than a dozen nonfatal shootings.