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IMPD: 16-year-old dead, another ‘stable’ after shooting on Indy’s southwest side

Man dies, teen wounded in shooting

LATEST: IMPD says the man who was transported to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition and later died was actually a 16-year-old identified as Christian Peters.

UPDATE: IMPD says an arrest has been made in this investigation, but the department did not say if it was the same person officers detained for questioning. News 8 is waiting on additional information.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis police are investigating a Tuesday night shooting on the city’s southwest side that left a man dead and a teenager wounded.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called just before 10 p.m. to a shooting near the intersection of Scotland Drive and Bank Place. That’s an address within a subdivision near West Morris Street and Bridgeport Road.

Police arrived and found a man who had been shot. He was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition but did not survive.

Around 10:40 p.m., police learned that a teenage boy was being treated for a gunshot wound at Ascension St. Vincent on the city’s northwest side.

“Based upon all of the information they have received, detectives believe both incidents above are related. The circumstances that led up to the shooting remain under investigation,” IMPD said in a release.

IMPD says a male who “identified himself as having been involved in the shooting” was detained near the crime scene. Police did not confirm if the person is a suspect or say what role he might have had in the shooting. He remained in police custody Wednesday morning.

Anyone with information was asked to contact Detective Kyle Hoover at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or e-mail the detective at Kyle.Hoover@indy.gov.

Anonymous tips can be left with Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.

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