Man found dead with gunshot wounds at intersection near city park
UPDATE: The man found shot to death at an intersection on Indy’s east side has been identified as 23-year-old Wykhem Hoosier, the Marion County Coroner’s Office said Monday.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man died after being found shot Friday afternoon at an intersection next to a park on the city’s east side, Indianapolis police say.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and medics were called to a report of a person down and unconscious shortly before 4:10 p.m. Friday at East 36th Street and North Hawthorne Lane. That’s next to Wes Montgomery Park.
Officers arrived to find the man on the street outside the park. He was dead of gunshot wounds.
The call to police came from a citizen, said Lt. Shane Foley of the public affairs division of IMPD.
The Marion County Coroner’s Office will release the man’s name and cause of death once his family has been notified.
No additional information was immediately available about a suspect.
Anyone with information was asked to call IMPD Detective Lottie Patrick at the homicide office at 317-327-3475 or email the detective at lottie.patrick@indy.gov. Tips can be shared anonymously through Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.
