INDIANAPOLIS -- One person was fatally shot Tuesday on the Near Eastside – marking the first homicide of 2017 in the deadliest neighborhood of 2016.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. near the intersection of 11th Street and Jefferson Avenue.
Emergency responders arrived to find a 38-year-old man with a gunshot wound lying on the front porch of a home.
The victim was declared dead at the scene.
Click the image below to see 2016's homicides mapped out by neighborhood:
The shooting comes fresh off the heels of a record-setting year of homicides in 2016. Last year, 149 people were killed in the city of Indianapolis – breaking the record set in 2015 of 144.
No other information was immediately available about the shooting.
