INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Late Sunday night, the normally quiet neighborhood of North Hillside Avenue was washed in the red and blue lights of police and emergency vehicles. Steve Starks was at home and awake when he heard gunshots.

“I’m like, ‘Hey y’all I’m hearing gunshots out here.’ So I’m probably used to it around here, so I didn’t pay attention to it,’ said Starks.

Twenty minutes later, his street was a crime scene. He came outside just as the victim was taken to the hospital.

Starks moved to this neighborhood about a year ago and he says sadly the sound of gunfire is too prevalent. Down the street from Starks’ home, two more people were shot at an apartment building on North Emerson.

There is broken glass everywhere around the apartment complex and trash is piled up in the parking lot and in the yard. No one coming and going on Monday was willing to talk on camera about what had happened.

Another east-side shooting — this one on Forest Avenue — claimed the life of a 34-year-old man and had police talking, IMPD Maj. Harold Turner told News 8.

“It is a lot for one day. It has not been a good year, period. Let’s just be blunt about it; we have not started the year in any fashion that we had hoped,” said Turner.

In the 3600 block of North Lesley Avenue, the crime scene tape was still blowing in the wind Monday as longtime resident of the area Troy Manuel looked over the scene.

Manuel says he has lived here coming on five decades and has never seen a surge in violence like this.

“I don’t like what is going on, but I don’t want it to come to my house or nobody else’s door. That ain’t good, man. A home invasion, these shootings, this senseless … all this stuff is senseless, man. People got to wake up, man,” said Manuel.

IMPD has not announced the arrest of any suspects in its five shootings over the weekend.