INDIANAPOLIS — It has been a busy start to 2024 for IMPD officers around the city as at least 10 people were shot in the first six hours of the new year.
By 6 a.m. on Jan. 1, officers responded to 10 reports of people shot around the Circle City. In total, three people died in relation to those 10 reports.
Of the shootings, two being investigated as a homicide, while a second is being considered a possible homicide.
The homicide occurred just after 1 a.m. in the 3100 block of Boulevard Place, on the near north side.
That man, identified Tuesday as 40-year-old Bryan Foley, was transported to Methodist Hospital, where he died.
In an afternoon update, IMPD said a person was detained at the scene, but later released. Preliminary information suggests a family disturbance occurred before the shooting incident.
A second and third homicide occurred in the intersection of Michigan Road and Grandview Drive on the north side of the city around 5:30 a.m.
Officers were initially called to this intersection for a vehicle accident. At the scene, officers located two people with trauma. Both victims died.
Both individuals suffered from gunshot wounds. IMPD is investigating their deaths as homicides.
On Tuesday they were identified as 45-year-old Justin Boyd II and 42-year-old Jasmine Ivy-Dede.
Other shooting calls for IMPD around the city happened in the following locations:
- 11400 block of Smoothbark Drive (47-year-old female)
- St Vincent Hospital walk-in (23-year-old male)
- 500 block of Moreland Avenue (21-year-old male)
- Eskenazi Hospital walk-in (39-year-old male)
- Intersection of E. Ohio Street and N. Delaware Street (26-year-old male)
- 6400 block of Maidstone Road (18-year-old male)
- 2400 block of Bradbury Avenue (28-year-old male)
