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IMPD: Two dead in apparent homicide-suicide on Caroline Avenue

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Posted at 3:26 PM, Feb 24, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-24 19:34:26-05

INDIANAPOLIS — Two people are dead after an apparent homicide-suicide Wednesday afternoon on the north side of Indianapolis, according to police.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called around 2:40 p.m. to the 4900 block of Caroline Avenue, just west of North Keystone Avenue.

Officers found a woman with at least one apparent gunshot wound when they arrived, IMPD Officer William Young said in a press release. She later died.

Officers later found a man inside the house who was dead, Young said.

Additional details, including the identities of the people killed, haven't been released.

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 317-327-3475 or report tips anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS (8477) or online.

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