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Witness recounts ‘cold-blooded’ shooting, suspected road rage incident near Taco Bell

Victims in suspected road rage shooting in Indianapolis ran to Taco Bell for help

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Two people were injured Monday afternoon in a suspected road rage shooting near a west side Taco Bell, police said. 

Both victims were listed in good condition at local hospitals within hours of the shooting. 

The incident was reported around 1 p.m. at the intersection of 10th Street and Girls School Road, near Ben Davis High School, Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center and Chapelwood Elementary School.

A driver fired at least four rounds at the victims’ white SUV, according to an employee at a nearby business who witnessed the incident.

The victims’ vehicle continued traveling east on 10th Street, appearing to flee the barrage of bullets, and pulled over near a Taco Bell located at 7275 W 10th St, the witness said.

He requested not to be identified in this report due to safety and work-related concerns.

“I just heard a pop,” the witness told News 8, describing the first gunshot. “Sometimes you think it’s a flat tire. And then, ‘Pop, pop, pop, pop.’ I was like, ‘Whoa!’”

He watched the injured driver tumble out of the white SUV and run into Taco Bell, “screaming” for help, he said.

News 8 crews observed a cracked windshield and at least two bullet holes in the SUV.

“We’ve all had our small interactions with road rage but not like that,” the witness said. “I mean, that was cold-blooded road rage.”

Authorities were unable to confirm what kind of traffic infraction or maneuver enraged the shooter.

Detectives leading the initial investigation said “everybody involved” had been accounted for and questioned, indicating the shooter remained on scene and cooperated with police.

Officials had not identified the shooter or confirmed an arrest Monday night.

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