INDIANAPOLIS — The glass of a woman's front door, shattered. The window next to it, left with a bullet hole. Her sliding glass door in the back, left with a quarter-sized hole after a bullet went through it, too.
"Shots fired? In broad daylight? There are kids out here playing all the time. It's crazy," said Tracy Chapman, whose house was hit by gunfire.
Nearly 72 hours after the shooting, IMPD officers could still be seen in the area talking with neighbors.
Remnants of the shooting, like the crime scene tape wrapped around a pole, could also be seen after police had it blocked off while they investigated Friday night's shooting.
"I got here at three o'clock in the morning and I still couldn't get to my house, and it was like, 'What's going on?'" asked Chapman.
"When I got here, doors shot out, windows shot out. The landlord is going to come and fix it, but like I said, I don't know. It's too much," said another neighbor, who did not want to be identified.
Chapman would later learn an officer was shot just feet away from here home where her kids were.
"They're fine. Everybody is OK. They just rushed the officer to the hospital," she said.
And according to IMPD, that's where the officer will remain for the next several days as he continues to heal.
Police also say no one in the community was hurt during Friday night's shooting.
Possible connection?
Meanwhile, IMPD detectives continue to investigate a possible connection between the shooting and the arrest of two men.
About three hours after the shooting, police were in pursuit of a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. According to court documents, detectives identified that car as a silver Kia that was "possibly being the vehicle used by the suspects in the incident."
The suspects were both arrested after evading police down 38th Street at speeds over 110 mph.
Officers found a loaded AK-47 magazine in one suspect's backpack, and a Glock handgun near the scene of his arrest.
Neither suspect has been charged with the officer's shooting. One of them, charged with resisting law enforcement and reckless driving, is due back in court Thursday.
IMPD officer shot
The shooting happened shortly before 9 p.m. July 26 in the area of East 36th and North Wittfield streets, which is just east of Post Road.
An IMPD spokesperson said officers were investigating a report of shots fired in the area when more shots were fired at officers, striking an eight-year veteran of the department.
The wounded officer was transported by his fellow officers to Eskenazi Hospital, where he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to his abdomen and another to his right arm, IMPD Chief Chris Bailey said early Saturday.
The officer's condition is described as "stable," and he is expected to make a full recovery, Bailey said, after spending "some days" in the hospital.