2 dead, 1 wounded after shootings; men found in 3 locations on west side
UPDATE: Authorities on Friday said two men were killed in shootings on the city’s west side Thursday night.
Police were initially called to the 5000 block of West 36th Terrace on reports of shots fired. There they found 23-year-old Robert Surney dead from apparent gunshot wounds.
A man was found shot in the 1100 block of North Elder Avenue a short time later. The victim, 21-year-old Bryant Bostic Jr., was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died from his injuries.
A third victim found was shot at West 34th Street and Auburn Road and lisrted in stable condition.
Police believe the shootings are related. No other details have been released.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — One man died and two other men were wounded Thursday night in shootings on the city’s west side, police said.
Police were trying to figure out why three people were shot and found at three different locations on the west side. The shootings could be related, investigators say.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and emergency medical crews were sent to a report of shots fired shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday to the 5000 block of West 36th Terrace. That’s at the Waterfront Terrace Apartments off 34th Street between Moller and Georgetown roads.
The man who died was found shot on West 36th Terrace.
Another man was found shot in a car about the same time a couple blocks away at West 34th Street and Auburn Road.
He was stable.
IMPD said the shootings at West 36th Terrace and at West 34th and Auburn are related.
About 10 minutes later, police and medics were called to a report of a person shot in the 1100 block of North Elder Avenue. That’s in a residential area off West 10th Street just west of the White River. The man found shot on Elder Avenue was in critical condition.
Elder Avenue is about 3 miles southeast of the earlier shootings.
Police did not immediately know the ages of the three men, but were talking to residents of the apartment complex who may have witnessed the shootings. Several residents told News 8 that they are frustrated with the crime in the area.
