INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — Indianapolis police say officers caught up with a suspect in a fatal shooting earlier Thursday night and shot him at the end of a vehicle chase near I-70 and Harding Street.
Medics were called about 8:20 p.m. Thursday to a report of a person shot in the first block of North Rural Street, just north of East Washington Street.
75-year-old Ronald Cross has been arrested for the murder of Patricia Wieber, 65.
Officer Tommy Thompson, an IMPD spokesman, said officers arrived at a home on Rural Street to find a woman with gunshot wounds. At the crime scene, officers got information on a suspect vehicle on Bullock Court. That's a cul-de-sac in the Southern Oaks subdivision located southeast of the intersection of West Southport Road and Bluff Road.
Officers went to a home on Bullock Court, seeing two people leave in the suspected vehicle.
Later, in an attempted traffic stop at West Southport Road and Bluff Road, the driver exited the vehicle, but the other person in the car moved into the driver's seat and fled from police. Police apprehended the driver.
At the intersection of West Morris Street and South Harding Street, police successfully stopped the vehicle, forcing it into a grassy area. That's when the suspect fired at officers, and at least three officers fired back.
The suspect was struck at least once by the police gunfire, and was stable when taken to a hospital. The county's computer-aided dispatch system said Indianapolis medics were sent about 10:33 p.m. Thursday to the 900 block of South Harding Street, near the I-70 interchange.
Police said a firearm was found at the scene.
The suspect was arrested for the murder of Wieber, IMPD said.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Detective Jose Torres at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317.327.3475 or e-mail the detective at Jose.Torres@indy.gov.
