Man dead after shooting at shopping center on west side

UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 52-year-old Eugenio Roman.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man died Sunday night after a shooting at a shopping center on the city’s west side.

Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department around 10:02 p.m. Sunday were called to the 5600 block of West 38th Street — at an address that corresponds to a business in the Town West Shopping Center, at the intersection of 38th Street and Moller Road — on a report of shots fired.

They arrived to find a man, identified as 52-year-old Eugenio Roman, shot who was pronounced deceased.

Maj. Kerry Buckner said the man was found dead near a vehicle outside the shopping center. Buckner said there was no information to indicate that the shooting was connected to the businesses but police were going to speak to possible witnesses and look at nearby security video.

No additional information about the identity of the man or the circumstances of the shooting were immediately released by police.