INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - “She was real nice and sweet. She would watch out for the kids when the parents weren’t out there and they was playing and being bad. She would try to get them,” said neighbor Diona Anderson.
She's remembering Shiloh Britton. The 16-year-old Lawrence North High School student was found shot to death early Wednesday morning.
Police found her body around 7:00 a.m. her family's Maison Gardens apartment, which is near 42nd Street and Post Road.
“This day after, it still has neighbors shaken,” said Shawn Reed. He and his girlfriend and their kids live next to the victim’s family. He said his girlfriend ran next door to try and help when she heard Shiloh's mother screaming. “The visual that she gave me is in my head, I had a lot of trouble at work last night. I knew she was a 16-year-old. Quiet, kept to herself, never got in any trouble. I don’t understand how they said that baby got shot.“
“I found it strange when I walked out that morning and seen her," said neighbor Diona Anderson. "They said she had passed away up there and I’m like I’ve been awoke and I didn’t hear no gunshots. I just found it strange.“
Others also told us they didn't hear gunshots. One of them Shawn Reed, who had been asleep in his apartment on the other side of the victim’s wall.
“Where they found her at, her wall and my wall. There is no bullets in my room. It’s right next door. The walls are thin. We got firewalls, still I can hear them when they talk and they can hear us. The TV.“
It's something for police to work through as neighbors work through their grief.
“My grandbaby has trouble reading sometimes and she helped her a couple of times when she found her outside. She was a sweet little girl," said Anderson.
Police told us they’re not only interviewing neighbors and other possible witnesses but looking at the electronic evidence, including cameras in the area of the shooting.