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Despite misleading letter, Indy 500 fans won’t lose race day parking placards
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Despite a brief scare this week, Indianapolis 500 fans who’ve grown used to obtaining placards to park in private businesses typically blocked off due to race day traffic patterns have no reason to worry about their parking plans for next year’s edition of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Wednesday evening, fans who had already purchased a parking spot for the sizable lot at the southwest corner of 16th Street and Olin Avenue, owned and operated by private company Turn 2 Indy and not the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, began receiving letters, refunds, or both regarding their reserved parking spots for the 2025 Indy 500. In the letter, a copy of which X user Bryan Friedrich posted to the social media platform, Turn 2 Indy told its customers that the “Indy 500 traffic committee” had decided not to issue traffic placards that had been necessary to gain access to areas otherwise cordoned off by roadblocks on race day morning.
After 35 years of parking dozens of cars and RVs in its lot, Turn 2 Indy thought it would not be able to host fans — some of whom had made parking there part of their longtime race day morning plans.
It appears, however, the owners and operators of the lot had a miscommunication with Speedway city officials and members of the police department, according to IMS president Doug Boles.
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After the issue was brought to Boles’ attention Thursday evening, he says he spoke with the Speedway Police chief — the city’s police force issues the placards each year that allowed holders to drive past barriers that otherwise blocked certain streets and access to some private businesses — and was told there had been no such decision and there is no Indy 500 traffic committee. There is a ‘law enforcement committee’ made up of local, city and state law enforcement officials that IMS works with to form traffic plans and patterns for race day.
Boles also said he spoke with the parking lot owners, Friday, who said they would be reaching back out to customers to communicate that parking abilities had been reinstated so those who’d grown used to parking there could ensure their spots would be secured and paid for for next May after refunds had been issued.
According to Boles, two-thirds of the nearly 350,000 Indy 500 race day fans park on property somewhere that IMS doesn’t own — whether it’s a side street, private business, private lot or a homeowner’s front lawn. Despite this week’s confusion, there’s no plans to hinder or scale back those capabilities, he said.
Indianapolis police shoot homicide suspect on South Harding Street
Indianapolis police shot a homicide suspect after a pursuit ended near I-70 on May 28, 2026. The suspect is in stable condition.
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Indianapolis police shot a homicide suspect after a vehicle pursuit that ended west of downtown near Interstate 70.
Just before 8:30 p.m. May 28, 2026 Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to a shooting in the first block of North Rural Street. Arriving officers found Patricia Wieber, 65, with gunshot wounds. Wieber was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.
Witnesses were able to give police information about the shooter and officers tracked the suspect to the 7500 block of Bullock Court on the city’s south side. The suspect, identified by police as Ronald Cross, 75, got into a different vehicle with another man. While tracking that vehicle officers attempted a traffic stop near West Southport and Bluff roads. The driver, who is not implicated in the homicide, got out of the vehicle without incident and was taken into custody.
Police said Cross then slid into the vehicle’s driver seat and fled. Officers used stop sticks and then in the 1000 block of South Harding Street near I-70 a SWAT officer used a vehicle to perform a PIT maneuver to stop the SUV, said Kendale Adams, IMPD deputy chief of criminal investigations.
After the vehicle was stopped officers shot the suspect, Adams said. Cross was taken to the hospital in stable condition. No officers were injured.
Adams said two firearms were located at the scene.
During a news conference at the scene, Indianapolis police chief Tanya Terry extended her thoughts to the family of Wieber who was killed in what police believe was a domestic violence situation. She also praised her officers’ handling of the situation.
“[Our officers] did exactly what our community expects them do to in situations like this,” Terry said. “Our officers worked with bravery, coordination and precision in their attempts to safely bring the suspect into custody. I’m extremely proud of them for the work that they’ve done.”
The chief added that Cross would be facing charges in the case and police confirmed hours later that Cross was arrested on a murder charge.
The shooting involving police was among a string of shootings across the city, including one downtown roughly two hours before that left a man in critical condition.
“It’s been a difficult night for our city,” Terry said.
The officers involved in shooting Cross have been placed on administrative leave, per department policy. The Civilian Use of Force Review Board will have a hearing on the shooting and body and dash cameras were activated during the shooting, Adams said.
It is unclear whether Cross fired at officers and what makes and models of firearms were found by police.
Asked those questions by IndyStar, an unnamed IMPD spokesperson did not provide additional information and instead referred to a press release that did not contain the answers.
This is the fourth shooting involving Indianapolis police since the start of the year.
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José Plasencia brings Cuban cuisine to Fountain Square’s Inferno Room
Cuban food never got the opportunity to evolve. Now at the Inferno Room, José Plasencia is giving his homeland cuisine a second chance.
A standout burger can come from unexpected places, as evidenced by one Indianapolis restaurant whose unconventional take on the American classic has earned it a spot on a national USA Today list.
There’s only one burger on the menu at the recently reimagined Inferno Room in Fountain Square, but it’s a good one.
Chef José Plasencia’s rendition of the Cuban frita, a beef-chorizo burger defined by a topping of fried shoestring potatoes, joined heavy hitters from across the country on USA TODAY’s pantheon of patties.
The USA Today list included places like Mr. Bartley’s Burgers, a veritable institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Jay’s Burgers in Louisville and Sacred Beast in Cincinnati.
Indianapolis’ best-known burger spot, the more than century-old Workingman’s Friend, did not make the national list but appeared alongside the Inferno Room on USA TODAY’s roundup of exemplary Midwest burgers. Both were featured on IndyStar’s list of 10 burgers to try around town.
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