INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD detectives are investigating after a person was found dead on Indianapolis' east side Monday morning.
Shortly before 7 a.m., officers responded to the 5300 block of East 32nd Street, just east of Emerson Avenue, for a report of a person found dead.
Officers located a "younger adult male" outside who was pronounced dead at the scene, and detectives are investigating "suspicious circumstances" surrounding the death, police told 13News.
Upon further investigation, officers determined the victim had been shot.
The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 21-year-old Daevion T. Martin.
"When I squinted my eyes to see what exactly was there, it was a body," said a man who discovered the body early Monday morning. He did not want to be identified. "Came home at 6:30 to get my dogs together, take them out. I thought they were out here trying to get at some cats like they usually do, but once we got past the gate where we normally go, they were steadily trying to get back up here on the property. As I came back up towards the property, I noticed a pair of shoes."
That man told 13News his family, who lives near where the body was found, called him earlier in the morning when they heard gunshots.
"My mother called me at 2 o’clock in the morning. About 2:00, 2:15, something like that. Telling me some people were out here shooting," he said. "It’s always a tragedy when somebody doesn’t make it home."
Police said they have spoken with people who live nearby, but do not currently have any witnesses or suspects identified.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Detective Chris Craighill at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email him at Chris.Craighill@indy.gov. Tips can also be made anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.