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Bennedict Mathurin, short-handed Pacers outlast more short-handed Grizzlies

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INDIANAPOLIS — The short-handed Pacers outlasted the even-more short-handed but eternally gritty Memphis Grizzlies 116-110 in a Sunday matinee at Gainbridge FIeldhouse.

The Pacers have won three straight and improved to 27-20, which puts them alone at sixth place in the Eastern Conference. The Grizzlies’ three-game winning streak was snapped, falling to 18-28.

Here are four observations.

Bennedict Mathurin goes on the attack

The Grizzlies are easy the most injury-plagued team in the NBA with eight players listed as out in Sunday’s injury report, including guards Ja Morant, Desmond Bane and Marcus Smart. All are out for extended periods, with the All-Star Morant out for the year.

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Those losses make the Grizzles a specific kind of dangerous, however, because they still have two tough centers anchoring their defense in Jaren Jackson Jr. and Xavier Tillman, so they play gritty and wall off the lane. They entered Sunday’s action ranking seventh in paint points allowed.

The Grizzlies were also playing without sharp-shooting guard Luke Kennard on Sunday, so they entered 6-4, 255-pound David Roddy into the starting lineup which made them even bigger and more physical even though they were lacking for speed and skill.

“When Kennard was unable to play, they put Roddy in the lineup and that was sending the message that this is going to be a physical battle,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. “They’re physical anyway, but him in the starting lineup was a further message of that. As much as you try to prepare your group for how physical it is going to be, words don’t do justice to it.”

Driving against such a defense requires a fearless player and skilled finisher. Bennedict Mathurin is very much both of those things, and he had his outside shot working as well, so he was in a way the perfect antidote for what the Grizzlies were doing. The Pacers were playing without All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton and center Myles Turner, so they needed someone along with Pascal Siakam to step up and be a go-to scoring option and Mathurin stepped up.

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Mathurin didn’t check in until the 7:23 mark of the first quarter, but when he did he went straight for the rim. The first time he touched the ball he drove straight from the timeline to the rim for a dunk and didn’t stop attacking after that. Mathurin scored 14 of the Pacers’ first 28 points and 17 of their first 33.

“The main thing for me was just to keep the game simple,” Mathurin said. “Just try to come out there and have an impact. It was working. It was working and I was scoring and getting my teammates involved. It was just knowing what the defense gave me. They were giving me drives early. I was applying pressure going to the rim.”

He finished with 19 first-half points, making 7 of 9 field goals and 3 of 3 3-pointers. He found fewer opportunities in the second half but finished with 24 points on 9 of 14 shooting including 3 of 5 from the 3-point arc. He also had seven rebounds, a steal and a block.

Mathurin’s drives helped open up other options and generally softened the Grizzlies wall around the lane. After scoring just 32 points in the paint against the Grizzlies in a loss in Memphis on Dec. 21, the Pacers outscored them 54-48 in the lane on Sunday.

“I thought Mathurin was tremendous,” Carlisle said. “He was tremendous. In the first half when we couldn’t get going, he was making the right play every time. The right drive, the right pull-up, the right read. And he gave us a lot of life in the first and second quarters. Tremendous growth by him this year with those things.”

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Pascal Siakam helps Pacers score in the paint

The Pacers needed Pascal Siakam inside. Navigating the paint against the Grizzlies isn’t easy, and even players with good handles have trouble against Memphis’ size there. So it really helps to have somebody 6-8 with a 7-3 wingspan who can keep his dribble and rise up to score. Siakam is that player.

The Pacers’ recently acquired two-time All-NBA power forward scored 19 points on 8 of 13 shooting, and he commanded enough attention to set up his teammates. He finished with six assists against one turnover and also grabbed six rebounds and two steals.

“It was difficult to get good shots all night,” Carlisle said. “Pascal got us going in the third quarter with some really good screening and footwork. Was able to break loose. We hit him two or three times. That gave us momentum going into the quarter. That was big. He’s got the inside and outside dimension. … He’s going to give us really unique versatility at the 4 position.”

Siakam also performed on the defensive end when he was switched on to Jaren Jackson Jr. Jackson scored 25 points, but was 7 of 17 from the floor and scored just five points in the fourth quarter on 1 of 3 shooting.

“The last play of the game was one of the reasons we traded for Pascal,” Carlisle said. “Putting him on a playmaking big like Jackson. They ran a keeper, he smelled it out, was able to stay in front, forced a difficult shot and then the rebound and the game was basically over. He was 8 for 13, six boards, six assists, he plays an all-around game that really complements our roster.”

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Jalen Smith, Isaiah Jackson step up in Myles Turner’s absence

The Pacers learned early Sunday afternoon that Myles Turner wouldn’t be available because of back spasms. Jalen Smith has also been dealing with those, but he stepped up in Turner’s absence.

Smith played tough in the middle and took advantage of the Grizzlies’ inattention at the 3-point line despite his 48.6% accuracy this season. He scored 19 points on 8 of 13 shooting, including 3 of 6 from 3-point range, and also grabbed 10 rebounds with blocked two shots. He scored 11 of Indiana’s 41 third-quarter points on 5 of 6 shooting in a tide-turning period. He also had three offensive rebounds in that quarter, which helped the Pacers post 1.55 points per possession in the period.

In the fourth quarter after the Grizzlies had rallied, Smith also hit a 3-pointer with 3:07 to go that broke a tie and gave the Pacers a 110-107 lead and his dunk with 35 seconds to go gave the Pacers a four-point lead that Memphis couldn’t come back from.

“Sticks played great,” Carlisle said, using Smith’s nickname. “He really did. As the game went along, he adjusted better and better to Jackson and his tendencies. He hit enormous shots in the game. The 3 he hit in front of our bench in the fourth quarter was a monster shot for us.”

Backup Isaiah Jackson also was productive, scoring 10 points and grabbing seven rebounds, five offensive.

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Andrew Nembhard provides more solid work at point

Second-year guard Andrew Nembhard has had to step in and start in Haliburton’s absence and he had to carry an even greater burden on Sunday with veteran backup T.J. McConnell out for family reasons. He played 37 minutes, as the Pacers used wings Buddy Hield and Ben Sheppard to handle the ball when he had to take a breather.

It wasn’t Nembhard’s most efficient performance but it was another in a string of strong ones. He scored 16 points on 5 of 14 shooting and dished out nine assists against just one turnover.

It was Nembhard’s fourth straight game in double figure scoring. In that stretch he’s averaging 18.0 points and 8.0 assists per game and shooting 30 of 54 (55.6%) from the floor.

“He made key plays down the stretch again,” Carlisle said. “His numbers don’t look super gaudy. Sixteen and nine, those are good numbers. But he scored in traffic one time. He made the pass to Sticks for a dunk one time. He was tough defensively the whole game. … He was terrific.”

Pacers stats vs. Grizzlies

MEMPHIS (110): Aldama 4-11 0-0 10, Williams Jr. 8-12 2-4 20, Jackson Jr. 7-17 11-12 25, Konchar 4-5 0-0 9, Roddy 5-13 2-2 14, G.Jackson 6-9 4-5 18, Tillman 0-3 3-6 3, Williams 2-6 0-0 4, Gilyard 1-1 0-0 3, Pippen Jr. 1-5 1-2 4. Totals 38-82 23-31 110.

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INDIANA (116): Nesmith 6-11 2-3 16, Siakam 8-13 3-3 19, Smith 8-13 0-0 19, Hield 1-8 0-0 3, Nembhard 5-14 4-4 16, I.Jackson 4-6 2-2 10, Toppin 1-5 1-1 3, Mathurin 9-14 3-3 24, Sheppard 2-6 0-0 6. Totals 44-90 15-16 116.

MEM 27 26 29 28 — 110

IND 23 28 41 24 — 116

3-Point Goals—Memphis 11-30 (Williams Jr. 2-3, G.Jackson 2-4, Aldama 2-5, Roddy 2-7, Gilyard 1-1, Konchar 1-2, Pippen Jr. 1-2, Jackson Jr. 0-3, Williams 0-3), Indiana 13-35 (Mathurin 3-5, Smith 3-6, Sheppard 2-4, Nembhard 2-5, Nesmith 2-6, Hield 1-4, I.Jackson 0-1, Siakam 0-2, Toppin 0-2). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Memphis 45 (Williams Jr. 8), Indiana 44 (Smith 10). Assists_Memphis 20 (Jackson Jr., Konchar, Pippen Jr. 4), Indiana 31 (Nembhard 9). Total Fouls_Memphis 20, Indiana 26. A_16,519 (20,000)



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Indy mayor candidate Andrea Hunley talks to IndyStar about education, data centers

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As Indiana Sen. Andrea Hunley prepares to run for Indianapolis mayor next year, she aims to set herself apart by drawing on more than 15 years of experience as an educator and principal.

In an exclusive interview with IndyStar ahead of her May 8 launch party, Hunley says she learned to build community face-to-face with parents, teachers and their children while also making tough decisions at the top. While her main opponent in the mayor’s race has spent more than a decade navigating city government, Hunley said she’ll bring that grassroots mindset to the mayor’s office.

About a year ahead of the May 2027 mayoral primary, Hunley, 42, sat down with IndyStar to discuss what she hopes to accomplish as mayor and how she thinks about hot-button issues like education, public safety and data centers.

At this point, Hunley will face longtime Indianapolis City-County Councilor Vop Osili and Department of Public Works administrator David Bride. Both candidates will also be invited for sit-down interviews with IndyStar in the coming weeks.

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Hunley’s responses have been edited for clarity, brevity, length and style. Watch her full interview above.

After a career as an Indianapolis Public Schools principal and a public school teacher, you were elected to the Indiana Senate in 2022. What do you want to accomplish as mayor that’s leading you to step down after one term? 

I loved my time in education, being a teacher and being a principal, and that’s where I spent the bulk of my career, two decades. And then going into the Senate, I never intended the Senate to become a career. I wanted to be elected, to work for the people, to do the work. And I think that running for mayor is just an extension of that. 

I’m really excited to get to work more closely with the community, more closely with neighborhoods, and more closely with our business leaders, and then of course with our education leaders as well. 

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What are a few ways in which you’d aim to change or reshape the city as mayor? What do you envision? 

I love that question because, really, this campaign and the reason why I’m running for mayor, it’s not because of my vision for the city, but it’s because of our collective vision for the city. I want this to be an opportunity for everyone to have a seat at the table to help write this next chapter together. That’s the key: that we want our pastors and our neighborhood advocates and our business leaders and artists and our hospitality folks, and, of course, anyone who has felt like they’ve never had a seat at the table, to all come together to create this vision.

That’s going to be, I think, what is different about this campaign, because I don’t know it all. And I shouldn’t pretend to know what everyone in the community needs. That’s not the role of government. The role of government is to serve, is to ask folks what they need, and then make sure that we are using their resources wisely to better their lives. 

You’re outlining a difference in approach for how you’ll try to work with the neighborhoods. Could you just share more about the methods for achieving that and the outcomes that you hope it would support?

When I think about what Indy will look like a decade from now, we have opportunities to be really bold, to be really big. We could be a river city. We could be the women’s sports capital. We would have really strong schools in every single neighborhood. And we could be a place where everyone’s got an opportunity to thrive. We know that we could go really big and really bold.

We also have to handle the basics. We’ve got to fix the potholes. We’ve got to make sure that all of our neighborhoods are invested in. We’ve got to make sure that we’re taking care of our housing challenges. And we’ve got to make sure that we are taking care of our challenges with our young people who feel like they don’t have a lot of opportunities.

But we have people who’ve been doing that work. We have people who have been working in the community. We have people working towards the river plan. We have people working towards building out our opportunities for sports for women and girls. We just need to make sure that it’s cohesive and that we’ve got a shared vision and a shared focus and that we’re marching towards that.

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Your main opponent at this stage, City-County Councilor Vop Osili, he has more than a decade of experience navigating city government. What about your professional and personal experience sets you apart from that level of experience? 

I am so blessed to have worked in a school setting and to have learned leadership in a school building, and not in a conference room or in a campaign office. I think that that’s the piece that sets me apart.

I’ll be frank that running a business, running a school building where you’re serving staff and hundreds of families and students every single day, where I was responsible for a multi-million dollar budget for 11 years, and every decision rested with me. If I got it wrong for kids or for families, the buck stopped with me. It was on me to fix it. That’s a lot of responsibility. That’s a lot of weight.

I think that that’s the type of experience, really, that we need in a city leader: someone who knows what it means to work with families every day, who knows what it means to partner with community, and who knows what it means to own the hard stuff. 

(Story continues below photo gallery.)

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Talking about your experience as an educator, as a principal, you voted yes to the bill creating the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance, which in turn led to the formation of the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation. You voted against IPEC, [which is overseen by a nine-member board of mayoral appointees that strips some powers from the elected IPS school board].

What has gone wrong there in that effort to reshape public education, and what should change about this new entity? 

When I think about school choice, wouldn’t it be amazing if when we said school choice, the obvious choice was staying in Indianapolis? 

We have to grow our base of folks, we have to expand our population, and we’ve got to make sure that we have a talented workforce and that people want to live, work, play, and stay here. The only way we’re going to be able to do that is if we have really strong communities, and strong communities start with strong schools. So we have to make sure that we are really leveraging all of the resources that we have to make sure our schools are strong.

I did support the creation of the Local Education Alliance. What that was about is about creating an opportunity for the community to have voice, for the community to have say, and for decision-making to be local. We didn’t need the Statehouse telling us how to run education here in Indianapolis.

And yet, at the end, that’s essentially what happened with the IPEC board, the new board, that is [under] mayoral control, but still is the Statehouse saying, “This is the way you’re going to do things.” I think that what’s gone wrong is that we’ve taken control away from our community. We’ve taken control away from the voters, to really have a say in who their elected representatives are that represent them on the school board. And we will never, ever be able to have true representation if we don’t allow the people to have a vote. 

As mayor, is it something you’d be advocating for at the Statehouse to perhaps reverse this new municipal corporation? Or do you think at this point you just have to to roll with it and go with the appointees? 

I think at the end of the day, my North Star will always be what’s best for the people of Indianapolis, what is best for our city, what’s best for our community. And we’ve got to look at what’s going to get us to a strong and stable school system in Indianapolis Public Schools.

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What we have to know, too, about the IPEC is that there are 11 school districts in Marion County. That IPEC board controls one of them, [IPS]. We need to make sure that in the mayor’s office, we don’t lose sight of the fact that we have public schools across the entire county that we’re responsible for. And so I think it’s going to be stepping back and taking that holistic approach of how are we serving every single kid?

Shifting gears, a big priority of the current administration has been budgeting for more than 1,700 police officers. But the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department remains hundreds short of that number. When you consider public safety, is bulking up the police force a main priority for you, or are there alternatives in which you’d look to invest more money? 

We have to make sure that we are investing in our communities. That’s the key, is making sure that there’s economic opportunity in every community, that there’s opportunity to build generational wealth, that there’s opportunity for education.

Just a dose of prevention is worth an ounce of cure. I think that believing that we’re going to police our way or enforce our way out of our challenges is a fallacy. So we have to make sure that we’re focused on prevention, but we can do both things.

We’ve got great, great groups around the city that are doing this: Our Indy Peacekeepers and VOICES, and the list goes on and on. There are great groups that are already working on that prevention side, and we need to make sure that we’re really doubling down on those efforts. We have community, our community-led task force that we have working on all of this, as well as partnerships for mental health supports. I think all of those things are really good, and we need to make sure that we’re investing in that. 

Because, I’ll tell you, the job of an officer is a challenge, and it’s no wonder that recruitment is hard. We can’t put everything on their plate. They can’t be the social workers and the pastors and the counselors. They can’t do all of those things. So we need to make sure that as a community, we’re investing in the other portion of it. 

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On this issue, public safety is something that Statehouse Republicans are often targeting and criticizing Indianapolis for. You’ve been a Statehouse Democrat, seen it from the inside. How do you think that will shape the way you would lead as mayor in your interactions with the Statehouse? 

It’s been a challenge to be at the Statehouse in the minority, but it’s also been an incredible blessing because I’ve been able to form relationships with my colleagues there. I’ve been able to really understand where they’re coming from and also figure out where we have alignment.

I do think that I’ve got many folks in the Statehouse that are a phone call away who are eager to see Indianapolis thrive, who are eager to partner with a mayor to see Indianapolis thrive. Because at the end of the day, this city controls 30% of our state’s GDP. Our state thrives when Indianapolis thrives. And my colleagues, no matter what county they’re from, understand that. 

Thinking about campaign financing, how do you think you would approach raising enough money to combat some of the large corporate checks that have gone to Mayor Hogsett traditionally, or in his absence could go to Councilor Osili. What’s your approach there in campaigning?

We are running a people-powered campaign. At the end of the day, it’s a people-powered campaign. We’ve got a big goal as part of our launch to make sure that we are engaging a lot of people and also hit a single-day record for the largest number of donations. That really is about making sure that folks know that this is a partnership, that this isn’t just my race, this is our race. I want them to join me in this.

I think that that’s just a different approach. I do have partners in the business community who I expect to write checks that have commas in them, because they can. I also know that my neighbors are going to be the bulk of my donors. Those neighbors that can drop in $5 or $10 or $20 because they believe in what’s possible. I would be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t worried about dollars. Campaigns run on dollars. At the same time, I also know that campaigns run with heart and they run with a lot of volunteers as well, and we’ve got that in abundance. 

Something you’ve mentioned before is that it’s not your “why” to be the first woman mayor, the first Black mayor, but both of those things would be significant achievements that haven’t happened in Indianapolis. How do you hope that they would shape the way you led and change the perspective at the top of the city? 

I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to possibly be a first for Indy. At the same time, I don’t want to be the last. It’s my responsibility to lift as I climb. That is what my ancestors have done. That is what other women in the community have done for me, and I want to be able to do that exact same thing.

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I also know that there’s a certain weight that is always, always on the shoulders of Black women, and it just is. That’s something that I’ve lived with my whole life, and that I know won’t be different right now. But I also know there’s something magical about us as Black women, that we make coalitions, we build them, and we shake up stagnant systems, and we hold folks accountable and say the hard things. And we also bring a little joy and fun. I’m excited about, showing our city what’s possible when you have that special mix. 

If you look across our state right now, here in the state of Indiana, we are at a historic moment for Black mayors. We are at a historic moment for Black women mayors. We’ve got Black female mayors in Michigan City, in Fort Wayne, in Evansville, and Lawrence, right here in our backyard. While it might be historic for Indy, it’s not historic for Indiana. 

I want to mention a few more policy issues that are hot button issues at the moment. I’ll start with data center developments. A lot of neighbors are upset about the prospect of these going near residential areas and creating limited jobs. What do you see as the role of data centers in the development of the city going forward? 

I think the question is: What do we see as the role of city government in making sure that economic growth is inclusive? How do we make sure that any new businesses, new corporations, new entities that are coming to our city are truly creating a community benefit? We’ve got to weigh that out.

Right now, what we’re not seeing is a strategic vision. We’re not seeing a plan. We’re not seeing standards that have been set out by the city. We have to know what the end goal is so that we can then determine whether or not something is good for our community or not. 

What’s the impact going to be on the environment? What’s the impact going to be on the neighborhoods? What’s the impact going to be on noise and pollution? What’s the impact going to be on jobs?

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Because I’ll tell you, one of the data centers that’s coming into my Senate district in the middle of [the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood] is going to provide, they said, maybe 10 jobs once the building is up and standing. We have to weigh out if that is worth all of the costs to the community.

Editor’s note: Metrobloks representatives say they expect the data center in Martindale-Brightwood to create closer to 45 permanent “high-skilled” jobs.

Should there be a moratorium to prevent more advancement until some regulations are in place? 

I would support a moratorium to create a plan, a moratorium to slow us down, to really make sure that we’re looking at the entire landscape. There are other mayors, there are other city governments in Indiana who are doing this well. There are other folks who are saying, ‘OK, hold on, we need to look at what the impact is going to be on our energy costs. Can our grid handle this? How is this going to impact our electric bills?’ That’s not happening here. 

Speaking of electric bills, what are some ways that you see the city could help with the rising cost of living and affordability issues?

Listen, it’s getting harder and harder right now. As I’m talking to folks, everybody feels broke. Because gas prices are high, you can’t afford your car note, and these utility bills and rents are going up. Half of folks in Marion County are renters. And so we also know that that’s an impact that we have there as well.

One of the long-term fixes is actually getting an affordable housing plan in place. We can expedite the zoning and approvals processes. Everything that we do that slows down the ability for developers to build that kind of “missing middle” housing costs more money in the end for the consumers, for us, every time we slow it down, every time we put in one more hurdle. There are ways that we can streamline, that we can make sure those processes don’t take three, four, five years because they shouldn’t.

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On the short-term side, the city can also do more and do better to make sure that we’re partnering to prevent people from getting evicted in the first place. We’ve just eliminated some of our eviction prevention programs, which is really problematic. And we need to make sure that folks have that.

We also need to look at what’s happening in each of our townships. Depending on which court you go to, you get a different response. It costs different amounts. We need to make sure that we have a set of standards for what it means to support our Hoosier residents to make life just a little bit easier, a little bit more affordable and a little more stable. 

You’ve said before that you bike to work. So I want to ask about Vision Zero, [the city’s plan to eliminate traffic-related deaths by 2035]. Some people feel like the policy is moving in the right direction, but not fast enough. If you get into office, will you accelerate that?

Policies, vision plans, all of those things can’t just be in a binder on a shelf. These are living, breathing opportunities for us to engage, for us to move forward, and for us to be in alignment on what the goals should be. They shouldn’t just be set and forgotten.

I love to bike. I love to walk. I walked here today and then I was late, so sorry about that. And riding IndyGo as well, I’ve got my MyKey pass on my phone, on my app. I love all of the opportunities that we have to build in exercise, to build in community on our way moving to where we’re going. 

We’ve got to make sure that our streets are safe. And some of the efforts that have been put in place were well-intentioned but poorly designed: those strips of green on the street, where then someone’s going to make a right turn and they have to cross over and then they don’t look back.

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There are things that we can be doing, that we should be doing, but it’s not about one plan. It’s about all of us as a community saying this is what’s important. It’s about prioritizing in in the budget, and it’s about making sure that everybody who’s on staff understands that that’s a priority as well.

My last question is, what do you think this election is ultimately about? What’s the story you want voters to take away from your campaign in the coming months? 

This is about us. It’s about us looking at what’s possible. It’s about us looking at what’s next for our city. It’s about us coming together to say, we can partner, we can do more, we can do better because I don’t believe that this is as good as it gets. I think that Indy’s best days are ahead of us. I think that we need the momentum and the bold leadership to get there. And so it’s ultimately about whether or not people are ready to write a new chapter.

Email Indianapolis City Hall Reporter Jordan Smith at JTSmith@indystar.com. Follow him on X @jordantsmith09 and Bluesky @jordanaccidentally.bsky.social.





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Kitchen fire forces evacuation at Indianapolis’ Sullivan’s Steakhouse

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — 45 employees and guests were forced to evacuate Sullivan’s Steakhouse on East 86th Street late Saturday night, which is right next to The Fashion Mall at Keystone.

According to a social media post from the Indianapolis Fire Department, just after 10 p.m., a fire broke out inside the kitchen exhaust hood system and spread to the roof.

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Multiple 911 callers reported flames on the roof and the fire was marked as working while IFD crews were en route.

Firefighters say the aggressive fire was under control in 26 minutes.

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Thankfully, no was one injured.



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Man fatally shot near 10th Street, Shadeland Avenue on Mother’s Day

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man is dead, and a suspect has been detained following a shooting on Indy’s far east side.

The shooting took place around midnight Sunday near the intersection of East 10th Street and Shadeland Avenue.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived at the scene and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds. Medics rushed him to a hospital, where he later died.

Investigators say they believe it started as an altercation in the parking lot of a business before the shooting happened.

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The suspect stayed on the scene and was later detained. IMPD says they located a gun in the suspect’s car.

IMPD Capt. John Arvin told media at the scene, “It’s Mother’s Day. Here’s the tragedy. A mother is going to get a knock on the door this morning that her son is dead. For the rest of her life, every Mother’s Day, she’s going to remember that’s the day my son died.

“That just makes this a senseless tragedy. We have no idea what the fight was over, what led to the shooting, but whatever it was, does it lead to someone’s mother knowing for the rest of her life my son died on mothers day. That’s just tragedy.”

Police say many of the surrounding businesses have security cameras, and they will contact them today to review the footage as part of the investigation.

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