INDIANAPOLIS — Late Monday night, some drivers heading down Madison Avenue near East Stop 11 Road on Indianapolis' south side encountered the unimaginable.
"It was like something off of a movie. It's something you usually don't see," said Rashawne, who is a witness.
Rashawne asked 13News to not use her last name. Rashawne said her boyfriend and she were heading home after a date night. As they were driving down Madison Avenue around 11:30 p.m. June 3, she said her boyfriend swerved.
"When the lights hit whatever it was, it looked like a body, so then I was like, 'Is that a body? and we turned around, and it was like a person laying down horizontally in the right lane," Rashawne said.
That's when she says she called 911.
Officers who first arrived on scene initially thought it was a hit-and-run. Tuesday afternoon, IMPD would change the report to a death investigation.
The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the deceased as 17-year-old Michael L. Berry, and determined she died due to multiple blunt force injuries, and her manner of death was ruled an accident.
Investigators now say it's unclear how Berry got in the road in the first place.
"It's really sad at the end of the day, and to not really know what happened to her makes it even more sad, and then, the fact she was hit so many times, like, that's unfortunate," Rashawne said.
If you have information, you're asked to call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.
