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Four dead after three shootings across Indianapolis

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Posted at 8:39 AM, Apr 24, 2022
and last updated 2022-05-12 11:11:23-04

INDIANAPOLIS — A violent weekend has left four people dead after three separate shootings in Indianapolis on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officers responded to a business in the 1900 block of N College Avenue and found a man inside who had been shot. Eric Preer, 31, died at the scene.

On May 1, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged Jalen Frierson, 21, and Hakeem Jackson, 20, both of Indianapolis, with murder, robbery and being serious violent felons in possession of firearms for their alleged roles in Preer's death.

Anyone with information about this incident should contact Detective Matthew Panknonie at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317.327.3475 or e-mail him at Matthew.Pankonie@indy.gov .

Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, a man was found outside in the 4000 block of Alsace Place near 38th Street and Franklin Road. Hector Sosa-Mendoza, 30, was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Anyone with information about this incident should contact Detective Michael Wright at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317.327.3475 or e-mail him at Michael.Wright@indy.gov

Two victims were found shot around 7:30 a.m. Sunday outside of a building in the 4000 block of Stratford Court. William Davis, 41, and Irene Williams, 36, died from their injuries.