IndyStar is tracking each killing to better understand violence in the city. This list is preliminary, and the number of homicides can change as authorities investigate each case, determining whether the slaying was criminal, justified, accidental or suicide. IndyStar has excluded cases ruled accidents, suicides, fatal overdoses or hit-and-run deaths unless they were deemed intentional. This information is compiled using data from Indianapolis police, court records and interviews with family and friends of those killed. Anyone with information that could help a homicide investigation is asked to call the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477 to remain anonymous.
January homicides | Public safety news
Man found with gunshot injuries inside vehicle on Ditch Road
Feb. 4: Around 1 a.m., officers responded to the 9300 block of Ditch Road on the north side of the city on a report of a person shot. They found a man inside a vehicle with gunshot injuries.
The man was transported to a hospital in critical condition, where he died.
Lead detective: Gary Toms, Gary.Toms@indy.gov
Dyeshia Tene Turner, 36, dies in shooting at apartment complex on South Bancroft St.
Feb. 1: A woman was found dead about 7:20 p.m. by officers responding to calls about a disturbance and a person with a firearm at an apartment complex at 1400 South Bancroft St. just off South Emerson Avenue.
The woman was found with fatal gunshot wounds in the yard of a residence at the complex, police said. She died at the scene.
“Detectives believe the disturbance involved people who were known to one another and the shooting was associated with the disturbance,” a news release from police stated.
Lead detective: Steven Gray, steven.gray@indy.gov
Marianne Weis, 52, found dead on Mitthoefer Road
Feb. 1: Police responded just before 11 a.m. to the 2100 block of North Mitthoefer Road, near its intersection with East 21st. Street, to a 911 call about a person down near a back road.
Officers found a woman with traumatic injuries. Emergency medical personnel pronounced her deceased. She has been identified as Marianne Weis.
Officer William Young with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said what led to the Weis’ death is under investigation. He noted that in the hours since finding her body, police have expanded their search in the immediate area, bordering an apartment complex and strip mall. Young said whether the woman was connected to either the residences or businesses has yet to be determined.
No suspect has been identified.
Police are asking anyone who has been in the area during the past 24-48 hours and may have seen suspicious activity to contact the department’s homicide office.
Lead detective: Ryan Clark, Ryan.Clark@indy.gov
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