INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis community is pleading for the violence to stop after their neighbor was shot in the head.
The incident happened around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5 near East Fall Creek Parkway North Drive and East 46th Street.
Officers responded to the area for a report of a person shot. No one was located at that location, but a male victim was located a short distance away with a gunshot wound to his head.
IMPD Capt. Mark McCardia told 13News the victim was "stable and talking" when taken to a local hospital.
McCardia said officers were told that two males witnessed "suspicious activity" outside one of their homes in the area, and were driving around in a pickup truck when one of them was shot.
Some of what happened was captured on Neka Humphries' Ring doorbell camera. She said it all started with a phone call to her husband.
"His phone rang. His friend told him that somebody was breaking into his house, so I immediately jumped up and looked on my camera, and I could see them on my Ring doorbell," Humphries said. "You can see two guys right here standing by my fence. You're going to see another guy walk across the street and start talking to these two guys here."
Police say Humphries' husband and another neighbor came outside, saw suspicious activity and told investigators someone shot at them while they were in a pickup truck.
The passenger was shot in the head. Police said he was grazed by a bullet and was alert and talking.
13News spoke with the man who drove his neighbor to a nearby fire station for help. He said they are both lucky to be alive and hope police catch the suspect.
Humphries said in the 37 years she and her husband have lived in the area, nothing like this has ever happened. She's now worried, not only for neighbors, but for her family's safety.
"It's a dear friend of ours. He's a good person, ya know, for this to happen. It's so scary," Humphries said. "Just put the guns down, Please! It's not worth it. It's not."
Aggravated assault detectives were working to sort out the circumstances of what happened, and police did not have any suspect information to share as of early Tuesday morning.
An IMPD spokesperson said Tuesday evening that investigators found "several guns, a significant amount of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and other narcotics" inside the victim's home.
Police do not have any reason to believe there is any ongoing threat to the community, McCardia said.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the IMPD Aggravated Assault Unit at 317-327-3475. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.