Police: 1 dead, 9 injured following shooting at party in northeast Indianapolis

Johnny Magdaleno, Indianapolis Star
Updated ·2 min read
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Update: Indianapolis police on Nov. 4 announced five people were given citations pertaining to the party. The violations included permitting minors to loiter, allowing minors to violate curfew, no dance hall permit and keeping or frequenting a dive.

Ten young people aged 16-21 were shot, one of them fatally, at what police say was a party on the city's northeast side.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers responded to an industrial park in the 5100 block of East 65th Street at midnight Oct. 29 after a large gathering was reported to police. When they arrived, officers believed they heard gunshots and saw a large crowd dispersing from the area, according to a Sunday statement issued by the department.

Kalin Washington, 16, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nine others were injured, police said, but all of them are currently in stable condition.

Crime scene tape remains up in the 5100 block of East 65th Street Sunday morning as police continue to investigate a shooting at a party that left a woman dead and nine other people injured.
Crime scene tape remains up in the 5100 block of East 65th Street Sunday morning as police continue to investigate a shooting at a party that left a woman dead and nine other people injured.

Multiple firearms were reportedly found at the scene by investigators. The statement said officers had detained "numerous individuals" but no arrests have been made.

"Our investigative team is actively working to establish their involvement in this incident," police said.

There is no known threat to the public, the department added.

Law enforcement and crime lab personnel were still combing the scene by mid-day Sunday. More than a dozen evidence markers dotted the ground in a parking lot marked off by crime tape.

Nearby, candy wrappers and a red-and-black mask lay on the asphalt. Someone abandoned a pair of blue high heels in the doorway of a business.

Austin Fry, an employee at Bier Brewery across the street, closed the brewery and drove off just after 11 p.m. He didn't witness anything, he said, and only realized something happened the next morning when he pulled up to work and saw police and crime lab cars blocking off streets nearby.

"It makes me nervous because I usually close at night," Fry said.

He hopes it doesn't have any impact on the business, and mentioned similar violent shootings in the Broad Ripple area.

"I guess this is just the new normal," he said.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said Sunday on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was "frustrated and angry" after hearing news of the shooting.

"There are far too many guns in the hands of those who have no business having them, and shocking violence is too often the result," Hogsett wrote.

The head of the Fraternal Order of Police union, Rick Snyder, blamed the continued gun violence on "soft on crime" advocates and a "revolving door" judicial system. He promised the union will "diligently seek solutions from state leaders with a focus on 'criminal control' and 'judicial reform'," a statement sent Sunday reads.

Among the injured were:

  • 16 male

  • 16 male

  • 16 male

  • 17 male

  • 17 male

  • 18 female

  • 18 female

  • 21 male

  • 21 female

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