Boy, 16, fatally shot at suburban Indianapolis bus stop

A 16-year-old boy ready at a suburban Indianapolis faculty bus cease with different college students was fatally shot Thursday morning by an assailant who fled the scene on foot, police mentioned.

The capturing about 7 a.m. prompted officers to put close by colleges on lockdown in Greenwood, a metropolis simply south of Indianapolis the place in July a 20-year-old man shot 5 folks, three fatally, in a mall’s meals court docket earlier than an armed shopper fatally shot him.

Greenwood Assistant Chief Matthew Fillenwarth mentioned the capturing occurred at a bus cease within the Summerfield Housing addition because the capturing sufferer, a sophomore at Whiteland Neighborhood Excessive Faculty, was ready there with a number of different college students. He mentioned the assailant approached, carrying a black hoodie.

“The suspect got here working up in direction of the sufferer and the opposite witnesses ran. The sufferer was shot a number of occasions by the suspect,” Fillenwarth mentioned at a briefing, including that the suspect fled on foot.

Fillenwarth mentioned police had been utilizing a helicopter and drones to seek for the suspect. He mentioned the police consider the capturing sufferer seems to have been “focused by the suspect particularly.”

After the capturing the sufferer’s mom, grandmother and different family members went to the capturing scene.

Fillenwarth mentioned the Greenwood Police Division was working with legislation enforcement from Johnson County, Indiana State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to research the capturing.