Public Safety

By JILL SHERIDAN A proposal on next week's City-County Council agenda would create a new Economic Enhancement District in downtown Indianapolis, where property owners in...

A maintenance man accused of killing a teen at her apartment complex on the northeast side of Indianapolis was officially charged with her murder. 

Over the weekend, Nov. 4-5, recruitment fliers purportedly left by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were found in Carmel, Indiana, and surrounding communities.  

Sunday, Nov. 5 members of KIPP staff, Edna Martin and the community at large gathered on Hovey Street – located around the corner of KIPP Indy Legacy High School – to pray for the recent events involving teens and gun violence.  

15-year-old Devin Gilbert was identified by his mother as the victim. She tells the Indianapolis Recorder that he was her oldest son, and he loved his family.  

A family is now grieving after news of a missing teen being found dead.   15-year-old Janiya Carr was reported missing by family members over the Halloween weekend.  Police reports show she was reported missing on Monday.

Andrew Holmes, an anti-violence activist in Chicago, had just responded to a mass shooting that happened at a Halloween party Sunday, Oct. 29, in the windy city when his phone rang with news from Indianapolis. 

There has been an officer-involved shooting in every IMPD district this year.   During the week of Oct. 23, two officer-involved shootings occurred within two days of each other.

Family tells the Indianapolis Recorder, Kalin Janae Washington was the victim to the shooting incident that left a total of ten people, ages 16 – 22, shot.

A total of ten people, ages 16 – 22, were shot, with one woman killed, after a party on the city’s northeast side early Sunday morning.