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INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating a shooting involving two officers on the west side of the city.
Shortly after 11:30 a.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police responded to a call from a person reporting they had been shot in the 5100 block of West Vermont Street , just off North Lynhurst Drive. The 911 caller described the shooter as a white male wearing a white shirt.
Officers encountered a man matching the description of the shooter. He was armed with a handgun, Assistant Chief Michael Wooley said.
Police took cover behind nearby trees and told the suspect over 16 times to drop the gun, Wooley said. The man pointed the firearm at officers multiple times, and at one point, two officers fired their weapons.
Emergency medical personnel, who were nearby because of the earlier shooting report, took the man to a hospital in critical condition from gunshot wounds. Wooley could not definitively say the injuries were from officers' guns Tuesday afternoon.
“We’re still uncertain on whether our officers actually shot (the man)," Wooley explained. "But we’re handling as if they did.”
Detectives located a revolver at the scene, but no other evidence of another person shot.
Inside the home, police found a note stating the suspect planned to kill himself. The man told the medics he shot himself multiple times, Wooley said.
The suspect’s phone number matched the number of the person who called 911.
No one else was hurt.
The two officers who fired their weapons are on leave, per standard procedure. Both had active body-worn cameras at the time.
The shooting will be investigated by the Critical Incident Response Team, and a separate internal investigation will be conducted by Internal Affairs.
The shooting marks the second involving police in Indianapolis in a week.
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2024 police-involved shootings in Indianapolis
This is the ninth shooting this year involving Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers.
June 25: Elijah Hakiem Radford , 45, was suspected of shooting a woman then leading police on a multi-mile chase that culminated in Castleton, where he's said to have held a woman at knifepoint when he was fatally shot.
June 1 : An officer fired their weapon while investigating gunshots downtown about 3:20 a.m. Neither the suspect nor the officer were injured.
May 28 : Jerrett Dwain Gray Jr. , 20, was a suspect in an armed carjacking when he was fatally shot while trying to flee police in the Cavalier Court apartment complex . Two firearms were found where Gray was taken into custody. One firearm carried a machine gun conversion device , commonly called a Glock Switch.
May 15 : Kelvin Andrew Chandler , 26, who was accused of shooting his roommate, was fatally shot in an "exchange of gunfire" with an officer in the 6500 block of Apollo Way . His roommate survived.
May 2 : Lemar Brandon Qualls , 35, was shot and killed after officers were called about a person armed and pointing a weapon at people in the 3900 block of Broadway Street, near 38th Street and North College Avenue. Witnesses said Qualls pointed the weapon at officers, according to police.
March 31 : Luis Duran-Ruano , 31, was killed after a SWAT standoff on Winston Avenue that started with a call about a man firing shots into the air near West 33rd Street and Georgetown Road.
March 24 : Dominique Lamonte Durham Sr. , 37, was fatally shot March 24 in an exchange of gunfire with off-duty officers working security at a nightclub on East Washington Street.
Jan. 24 : Raphael Dekemper , 41, was shot and killed in a shootout with officers on Brookside Parkway North Drive.
DOJ investigation into police shootings
In mid-April Mayor Joe Hogsett and Bailey announced the Department of Justice would conduct an extensive review of shootings by police after a sharp spike in 2023 when officers were involved in 17 shootings that killed or injured someone . A timeline for when the results of that review would be released hasn't been provided.
Past coverage: DOJ steps in to review shootings involving Indianapolis police at Chief Bailey's request
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